Douglas Charles Kane

Arda Reconstructed

The Creation of the Published Silmarillion

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book the author reveals a tapestry woven by Christopher Tolkien from different portions of his father's work that is often quite mind-boggling, with inserts that seemed initially to have been editorial inventions shown to have come from some other remote portion of Tolkien's vast body of work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 162mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 574g
• ISBN-13: 9781611460568
• ISBN-10: 1611460565
• Artikelnr.: 35359520

Autorenporträt

By Douglas Charles Kane

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments Source
Materials and Conventions Introduction: Reconstructing Arda Part I: The
Ainulindalë and the Valaquenta Ainulindalë (The Music of the Ainur)
Valaquenta (Account of the Valar) Part II: Quenta Silmarillion (The History
of the Silmarils) Chapter 1 "Of the Beginning of Days" Chapter 2 "Of Aulë
and Yavanna" Chapter 3 "Of the Coming of the Elves and the Captivity of
Melkor" Chapter 4 "Of Thingol and Melian" Chapter 5 "Of Eldamar and the
Princes of the Eldalië" Chapter 6 "Of Fëanor and the Unchaining of Melkor"
Chapter 7 "Of the Silmarils and the Unrest of the Noldor" Chapter 8 "Of the
Darkening of Valinor" Chapter 9 "Of the Flight of the Noldor" Chapter 10
"Of the Sindar" Chapter 11 "Of the Sun and the Moon and the Hiding of
Valinor" Chapter 12 "Of Men" Chapter 13 "Of the Return of the Noldor"
Chapter 14 "Of the Beleriand and Its Realms" Chapter 15 "Of the Noldor in
Beleriand" Chapter 16 "Of Maeglin" Chapter 17 "Of the Coming of Men into
the West" Chapter 18 "Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin"
Chapter 19 "Of Beren and Lúthien" Chapter 20 "Of the Fifth Battle" Chapter
21 "Of Túrin Turambar" Chapter 22 "Of the Ruin of Doriath" Chapter 23 "Of
Tuor and the Fall of Gondolin" Chapter 24 "Of the Voyage of EGrendil and
the War of Wrath" Part III: The Akallabêth, Of the Rings of Power and the
Third Age, and the Appendices to the Silmarillion Akallabêth (The Downfall
of Númenor) Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age Appendices to the
Silmarillion Conclusion: Arda Reconstructed Notes Index