Sauron Defeated: The End Of The Third Age: The History of the Lord of the Rings, part four (History of Middle-earth, 9) (First Edition)

Tolkien, J.R.R.

ISBN 10: 0395606497 / ISBN 13: 9780395606490

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York, 1992

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. First American edition. First printing, with full number line including 1. Hardcover. Full black cloth, with gilt spine lettering. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Slight foxing; small water-stain to jacket at head of spine. Publisher's original price intact on front jacket flap ($22.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Octavo, 482 pages, brown endpapers. Edited by Christopher Tolkien. This volume traces the final composition of "The Lord of the Rings" and includes the abandoned time-travel narrative "The Notion Club Papers" and the unpublished epilogue to the trilogy. This twelve-volume series, edited by Christopher Tolkien, chronicles the evolution of Middle-earth across drafts, notes, and commentary; the other volumes include: "The Book of Lost Tales, Part I"; "The Book of Lost Tales, Part II"; "The Lays of Beleriand"; "The Shaping of Middle-earth"; "The Lost Road and Other Writings"; "The Return of the Shadow"; "The Treason of Isengard"; "The War of the Ring"; "Morgoth's Ring"; "The War of the Jewels"; and "The Peoples of Middle-earth." J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973), author of "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings," was Professor of Philology at Oxford. This volume was posthumously edited by his son, Christopher Tolkien.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sauron Defeated: The End Of The Third Age: The History of the Lord of the Rings, part four (History of Middle-earth, 9) (First Edition)
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston and New York
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0395606497
• ISBN 13: 9780395606490
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

The final part of The History of The Lord of the Rings, Sauron Defeated: The End Of The Third Age 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enthralling account of the writing of the Book of the Century which contains many additional scenes and includes the unpublished Epilogue in its entirety.

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. These mysterious papers, discovered in the early years of the twenty-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 legend 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.

About the Author

J.R.R. Tolkien (1892–1973) was a distinguished academic, though he is best known for writing The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, plus other stories and essays. His books have been translated into over sixty languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide.