Sauron Defeated: The History of Middle-Earth, Vol IX: Book 9 (First UK edition-first printing)

Tolkien, Christopher

ISBN 10: 0261102400 / ISBN 13: 9780261102408

Published by HarperCollins, 1992

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Near fine/VGC. HarperCollins, 1992. First UK edition-first impression. Red hardback (two small nicks on the edges of the cover and spine, gilt lettering to the spine) in near fine condition, with Dj (two small creases, nicks and scratches on the edges of the Dj cover, the spine of the Dj cover is faded, slight damage at the back of the Dj cover) in VGC. Illustrated with b/w drawings. Nice and clean pages with two very small marks on the outer edges. Nice and clean book with light shelf wear on the Dj cover. 488pp including index. A collectable first edition. Heavy book.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sauron Defeated: The History of Middle-Earth, Vol IX: Book 9 (First UK edition-first printing)
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0261102400
• ISBN 13: 9780261102408
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science Fiction & Fantasy
  • Rare & Collectable Books

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Synopsis

In the first part of Sauron Defeated, Christopher Tolkien completes his account of the writing of The Lord of the Rings, beginning with Sam's rescue of Frodo from the Tower of Kirith Ungol, and giving a very different account of the Scouring of the Shire. This part ends with versions of the previously unpublished Epilogue, an alternate ending to the masterpiece in which Sam attempts to answer his children's questions years after the departure of Bilbo and Frodo from the Grey Havens. The second part introduces The Notion Club Papers, now published for the first time. Written by J.R.R. Tolkien in the interval between The Two Towers and The Return of the King (1945-1946), these mysterious Papers, discovered in the early years of the twenty-first century, report the discussions of a literary club in Oxford in the years 1986-1987. Those familiar with the Inklings will see a parallel with the group whose members included J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. After a discussion of the possiblities of travel through space and time through the medium of 'true dream," the story turns to the legend of Atlantis, the strange communications received by members of the club out of remote past, and the violent irruption of the legend into northwestern Europe. Closely associated with the Papers is a new version of the Numenorean legend, 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 - Tolkien's fifteenth invented language. The book concludes with an elaborate account of the structure of this language by Arundel Lowdham, a member of the Notion Club, who learned it in his dreams. Sauron Defeated is illustrated with the changing conceptions of the fortress of Kirith Ungol and Mount Doom, previously unpublished drawings of Orthanc and Dunharrow, and fragments of manuscript written in Numenorean script.

About the Author

CHRISTOPHER TOLKIEN is the third son of J.R.R. Tolkien. Appointed by Tolkien to be his literary executor, he has devoted himself to the editing and publication of unpublished writings, notably The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, and The History of Middle-earth.

J.R.R. TOLKIEN (1892–1973) is the creator of Middle-earth and author of such classic and extraordinary works of fiction as The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. His books have been translated into more than fifty languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide.