TREASON OF ISENGARD The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part 2

J. R. R. Tolkien & Christopher Tolkien

ISBN 10: 0395515629 / ISBN 13: 9780395515624

Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, 1989

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Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Light foxing along text block edges. ; 8.8 X 5.9 X 1.8 inches; 504 pages.

Seller Inventory # 165424

Bibliographic Details

• Title: TREASON OF ISENGARD The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part 2
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0395515629
• ISBN 13: 9780395515624
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science Fiction and Fantasy
  • J. R. R. Tolkien
  • History
  • Art, Architecture and Photography

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Synopsis

Recounts the writing of the central section of the Lord of the Rings, and shows how Tolkien developed his maps of Middle Earth

About the Author

J.R.R. Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892. After serving in the First World War, he embarked upon a distinguished career as a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford University. He is the renowned creator of Middle-earth and author of the great modern classic, The Hobbit, the prelude to his epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings. Other works by J.R.R. Tolkien include The Silmarillion. J.R.R. Tolkien died in 1973 at the age of 81.

Christopher Tolkien, who formerly taught at Oxford University, is J.R.R. Tolkien's son and literary executor. The editor of The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales as well as the twelve-part series The History of Middle-earth, he lives in France.