The Nature Of Middle-Earth

This was an interesting collection of Middle-Earth facts and figures that Tolkien worked out from about 1959 to 1969. He continued to write many notes and essays to clarify and make sense of disparities amongst all his works. This book was divided into three sections: Time and Aging; Body, Mind, and Spirit; and The World, Its Lands, and Its Inhabitants. Sometimes, the editor presented whole pieces and the iterations it went through. Sometimes, it was fragments that Christopher Tolkien did not include in his twelve volume History of Middle-Earth series. By arranging them all in the above three categories, the information made a little more sense, although the amount of detail often got overwhelming.

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