The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide - Volume 3: Reader's Guide PART 2

The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide is a comprehensive handbook to one of the most popular authors of the twentieth century. One of two volumes comprising this definitive work, the Reader''s Guide is an indispensable introduction to J. R. R. Tolkien''s life, writings, and art. It includes histories and discussions of his works; analyses of the components of his vast ''Silmarillion'' mythology; brief biographies of persons important in his life; accounts of places he knew; essays on topics such as Tolkien''s interests and attitudes towards contemporary issues, ideas found in his works, adaptations, and invented languages; and checklists of his published works, his poetry, his pictorial art, and translations of his writings.

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• Authors: Wayne G Hammond, Wayne G. Hammond, Wayne G. Scull Hammond, Christina Scull, J R Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
• Assisted by: Wayne G. Hammond (Editor), Christina Scull (Editor)
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9780008214531
• ISBN: 978-0-00-821453-1
• No. of pages: 896
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 228 mm x 44 mm
• Series: The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion And Guide; The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion And Guide
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies; Englisch, Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel, Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000, Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren, Literaturwissenschaft: Begleitbücher, literarische Führer, Rezensionen, Englische Bücher / Geisteswissenschaften / Literaturwissenschaft