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Buy this book on-line TOLKIEN**, J. R. R - Edited by Christopher Tolkien**: : SAURON DEFEATED: THE END OF THE THIRD AGE [The History of the Lord of the Rings Part Four - Illustrated]LONDON.HarperCollinsPublishers,1992. ISBN 0261102400.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Illustrated
'Volume 9: The History of the Middle
Earth',edited by Tokien's son and executor of his estate,Christopher Tolkien.] FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and dw/dj unclipped - absence of publisher's price. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,maroon background with gilt double-lined box containing J.R.R. Tolkien's gilt initials and name,with white lettering for author and book's title to front panel of dw/dj,
similar gilt double-lined box but with only Tolkien senior's initials.Gilt+white lettering to dw/dj's spine/backstrip which is not sunned nor faded.Both panels of dw/dj with light,minimal,light scoring+ indentations which have very,very lightly affected boards beneath,in only a couple of places.All 4 corners minimally rubbed with miniscule loss and both head+foot of spine/backstrip of both boards and dw/dj, are minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges lightly grubbed/ marked but cleanish; contents bright, tight,clean - solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - would appear unread,apart from my own collation.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vi-xipp+ 4-482pp [paginated] includes editor foreword,Pts 1-3 - Pt1 comprising 11 chapters including an Epilogue,plus an appendix; Pt2 comprising an introduction, foreword+members list,Notion Club Paper Pts 1+2,5 divergent earlier versions (i-v) and Pt3 comprising 6 (vi) sections on legend/version of The Drowning of Anadune respectively,an illustrations (14 - colour +b/w ) list,and an index.Plus [unpaginated] double-page colour frntis (Arundel Lowdham's 'Fragments'),half-title +title pages,Pts separator pages,and 2pp blanks at the rear.Described hard,but fairly and honestly - nowhere as bad as it reads or would sound - faults described are on a very light scale.
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Ungol,and giving a very different account of the Scouring of the Shire,this section ends with versions of the hitherto unpublished 'Epilogue',in which,years after the departure of Bilbo and Frodo from the Grey Havens,Sam attempts to answer his children's questions.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.
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