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This fifth volume of The History of Middle-earth, edited by
Christopher Tolkien, completes the presentation of the whole
compass of his writing on those themes up to that time. Later
forms of the Annals of Valinor and the Annals of Beleriand had
been composed, The Silmarillion was nearing completion in a
greatly amplified version, and a new Map had been made; the
myth of the Music of Ainur had become a separate work; and
the legend of the Downfall of Numenor had already entered in a
primitive form, introducing the cardinal ideas of the World
Made Round and the Straight Path into the vanished West.
Closely associated with this was the abandoned 'time-travel'
story The Lost Road, which was to link the world of Numenor
and Middle-earth with the legends of many other times and
people. A long essay (The Lhammas) had been written on the
ever more complex relations of the languages and dialects of
Middle-earth; and an 'etymological dictionary' had been
undertaken, in which a great number of words and names in the
Elvish languages were registered and their formation explained -
thus providing by far the most extensive account of their
vocabularies that has appeared.

Grafton.
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Hammersmith, London W6 8JB.

Published by Grafton 1992
98765432

First published in Great Britain by
Unwin Hyman 1987
(C) Unwin Hyman Ltd 1987

TM @ 1990 Frank Richard Williamson
and Christopher Reuel Tolkien,
executors of the estate of the late
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.

ISBN 0 261 10225 7.

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