Sauron Defeated: The History of Middle-Earth, Vol IX: Book 9

J.R.R. Tolkien (Ed. Christopher Tolkien)

ISBN 10: 0261102400 / ISBN 13: 9780261102408

Published by HarperCollins, 1992

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Red coverboards with gilt lettering on spine in excellent condition. Light foxing on top edge. Pages clean, binding tight. Dustjacket has light edgewear, a sunfaded spine and is price clipped. Photo's on request. Seller Inventory # ABE-1718975539263

Bibliographic Details

Title: Sauron Defeated: The History of Middle-Earth...

Publisher: HarperCollins

Publication Date: 1992

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

In the first part of this book, the author completes his account of the writing of The Lord of the Rings - beginning with Sam's rescue of Frodo and giving a different account of the Scouring of the Shire. The second part is an edition of The Notion Club Papers written by J.R.R. Tolkien.

From the Back Cover:

In the first section of 'Sauron Defeated' Christopher Tolkien completes his fascinating study of 'The Lord of the Rings'. Beginning with Sam's rescue of Frodo from the Tower of Cirith Ungol, and giving a very different account of the Scouring of the Shire, this section ends with versions of the hitherto unpublished 'Epilogue', in which, years after the departure of Bilbo and Frodo from the Grey Havens, Sam attempts to answer his children's questions.

The second section is an edition of 'The Notion Club Papers', now published for the first time. These mysterious papers discovered in the early years of the twentieth-first century, report the discussions of an Oxford club in the years 1986-7, in which, after a number of topics, the centre of interest turns to the legends of Atlantis, the strange communications received by other members of the club from the past, and the violent irruption of the legend into the North-west of Europe. Closely associated with the 'Papers' is a new version of the 'Drowning of Anadune', which constitutes the third part of the book. At this time the language of the Men of the West, 'Adunaic', was first devised, and the book concludes with an account of its structure provided by Arundel Lowdham, a member of the Notion Club, who learned it in his dreams.