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THE RETURN OF THE SHADOW by Tolkien THE HISTORY OF THE LORD OF THE RINGS Part 1
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- “Has minimal wear, slight crease on top left edge of back cover.”
- Personalize
- No
- Inscribed
- No
- Original Language
- English
- Personalized
- No
- Book Series
- History of Middle-Earth Ser.
- Signed
- No
- ISBN
- 9780618083572
- Book Title
- Return of the Shadow
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Item Length
- 8.2 in
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.3 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Fantasy / General, Fantasy / Dragons & Mythical Creatures, Fantasy / Epic
- Item Weight
- 16.9 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 512 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
061808357X
ISBN-13
9780618083572
eBay Product ID (ePID)
14038674013
Product Key Features
Book Title
Return of the Shadow
Number of Pages
512 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Fantasy / General, Fantasy / Dragons & Mythical Creatures, Fantasy / Epic
Publication Year
2000
Genre
Fiction
Book Series
History of Middle-Earth Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
16.9 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
21
Series Volume Number
6
Dewey Decimal
823.9/12
Synopsis
The first part of The History of The Lord of the Rings, The Return Of The Shadow is J.R.R. Tolkien's enthralling account of the writing of the Book of the Century which contains many additional scenes and includes the unpublished Epilogue in its entirety. The Return of the Shadow is the story of the first part of the history of the creation of The Lord of the Rings, a fascinating study of Tolkien's great masterpiece, from its inception to the end of the first volume, The Fellowship of the Ring. In The Return of the Shadow (the abandoned title of the first volume of The Lord of the Rings) we see how Bilbo's magic ring evolved into the supremely dangerous Ruling Ring of the Dark Lord; and the precise, and astonishingly unforeseen, moment when a Black Rider first rode in to the Shire. The character of the hobbit called Trotter (afterwards Strider or Aragorn) is developed, and Frodo's companions undergo many changes of name and personality. The book comes complete with reproductions of the first maps and facsimile pages from the earliest manuscripts., In this sixth volume of The History of Middle-earth the story reaches The Lord of the Rings. In The Return of the Shadow (an abandoned title for the first volume) Christopher Tolkien describes, with full citation of the earliest notes, outline plans, and narrative drafts, the intricate evolution of The Fellowship of the Ring and the gradual emergence of the conceptions that transformed what J.R.R. Tolkien for long believed would be a far shorter book, 'a sequel to The Hobbit'. The enlargement of Bilbo's 'magic ring' into the supremely potent and dangerous Ruling Ring of the Dark Lord is traced and the precise moment is seen when, in an astonishing and unforeseen leap in the earliest narrative, a Black Rider first rode into the Shire, his significance still unknown. The character of the hobbit called Trotter (afterwards Strider or Aragorn) is developed while his indentity remains an absolute puzzle, and the suspicion only very slowly becomes certainty that he must after all be a Man. The hobbits, Frodo's companions, undergo intricate permutations of name and personality, and other major figures appear in strange modes: a sinister Treebeard, in league with the Enemy, a ferocious and malevolent Farmer Maggot. The story in this book ends at the point where J.R.R. Tolkien halted in the story for a long time, as the Company of the Ring, still lacking Legolas and Gimli, stood before the tomb of Balin in the Mines of Moria. The Return of the Shadow is illustrated with reproductions of the first maps and notable pages from the earliest manuscripts.
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