Volume 2 of the most comprehensive in-depth companion to Tolkien's life and works ever published. This volume includes a superlative day-by-day chronology of Tolkien's life, presenting the most detailed biographical record available. The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide is a comprehensive handbook to one of the most popular authors of the twentieth century. One of two volumes comprising this definitive work, the Reader's Guide is an indispensable introduction to J. R. R. Tolkien's life, writings, and ...
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Volume 2 of the most comprehensive in-depth companion to Tolkien's life and works ever published. This volume includes a superlative day-by-day chronology of Tolkien's life, presenting the most detailed biographical record available. The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide is a comprehensive handbook to one of the most popular authors of the twentieth century. One of two volumes comprising this definitive work, the Reader's Guide is an indispensable introduction to J. R. R. Tolkien's life, writings, and art. It includes histories and discussions of his works; analyses of the components of his vast 'Silmarillion' mythology; brief biographies of persons important in his life; accounts of places he knew; essays on topics such as Tolkien's interests and attitudes towards contemporary issues, ideas found in his works, adaptations, and invented languages; and checklists of his published works, his poetry, his pictorial art, and translations of his writings.
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Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0007149182. Stiff square unmarked book in clean navy cloth; in barely rubbed dust jacket.; 149 X 55 X 228 millimeters; 1256 pages.
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Like New in Very Good jacket. Size: 5x2x8; One-volume edition of the Readers' Guide (does not include Chronology). First printing with number line to 1. Black boards with silver spine titling, near fine with faintly bumped spine ends. Spine square. Binding sound. Dust jacket very good in Mylar with light edgewear, faint sticker ghost to front panel. Pages clean, text unmarked.
