The
Tolkien Companion
di .J.E.A.
Tyler
Illustrato
da Kevin Reilly
Picador,
Londra,
1°
edizione 1977, pp. 531
Brossura
Note
J.E.A. Tyler has compiled almost every known fact,
name, 'foreign' word, date, and etymological allusion occuring in Professor
Tolkien's history of the Middle-earth of long ago into one complete and
accessible concordance. It includes much of the High History of the Elven
peoples, whose tragedy it was to introduce war into a hitherto innocend
Middle-earth: it sheds new light on the origins of Morgoth the Enemy, on his
Fall, and on the subsequent rise to power of his servant, Sauron the Great,
Lord of the Rings: and it detils the long and heroic story of how the various
Free Peoples - Elves, Men, Ents, Dwarves, and of course Hobbits - attempted,
with varying success, to maintain themselves and their relams against the
greatest Peril of the Ancient World. There is also a detailed guide to the
various Elvish writing-systems, together with explanatory maps, charts and
genealogical tables developed by the compiler and drawn by Kevin Reilly.
