Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth
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Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth is a collection of scholarly essays edited by Verlyn Flieger and Carl F. Hostetter on the 12 volumes of The History of Middle-earth, relating to J. R. R. Tolkien's fiction and compiled and edited by his son, Christopher. It was published by Greenwood Press in 2000. That series comprises a substantial part of "Tolkien's legendarium", the body of Tolkien's mythopoeic writing that forms the background to his The Lord of the Rings and which Christopher Tolkien summarized in his compilation of The Silmarillion.
Author | Verlyn Flieger and Carl F. Hostetter, editors |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Subject | History of Middle-earth |
Genre | Tolkien studies |
Publisher | Greenwood Press |
Publication date | 2000 |
Media type | Hardcover |
ISBN | 978-0-313-30530-6 |
OCLC | 41315400 |
823/.912 21 | |
LC Class | PR6039.O32 H5727 2000 |
It includes a bibliography of works by Christopher Tolkien compiled by Douglas A. Anderson.
Tolkien's Legendarium won the 2002 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award for Inklings Studies.[1]