Unfinished Tales also contains the only story about the long ages of Numenor before its downfall, and all that is known about such matters as the Five Wizards, the Palantiri and the legend of Amroth. The book concentrates on the realm of Middle-earth and comprises such elements as Gandalf's lively account of how it was that he came to send the Dwarves to the celebrated party at Bag-End, the emergence of the sea-god Ulmo before the eyes of Tuor on the coast of Beleriand, and an exact description of the military organization of the Riders of Rohan. Unfinished Tales is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring, and provides those who have read The Lord of the Rings with a whole collection of background and new stories from the twentieth century's most acclaimed popular author. JRR Tolkien's legacy of short stories which inhabit the realm of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, on CD for the first time. " Cirion and Eorl and the Friendship of Gondor and Rohan"." The History of Galadriel and Celeborn"." Aldarion and Erendis: The Mariner's Wife"." A Description of the Island of Númenor"." Narn i Chîn Húrin (The Tale of the Children of Húrin)".(These illustrators had separately provided cover-art for prior publications, in 1996, 2001, and 2003 respectively.) In 2020, an "Illustrated Edition" of the book was released by Houghton Mifflin, featuring art by John Howe, Alan Lee, and Ted Nasmith. Considering this, Christopher Tolkien began to embark upon the more ambitious twelve-volume work entitled The History of Middle-earth which encompasses nearly the entire corpus of Tolkien's Middle-earth writings.Ī special Deluxe Slipcase Edition was released by Harper Collins in 2013. Unfinished Tales had commercial success, demonstrating that demand for Tolkien's stories several years after his death grew on. Of particular note is the tale of Tar-Aldarion and Erendis, the only known story set within Númenor before its fall. Tales include alternate accounts of the origins of Gandalf and the Wizards, the death of Isildur and the loss of the One Ring in the Gladden Fields, and the founding of the kingdom of Rohan. Despite shortcomings in editorial consistency, Unfinished Tales provides detailed information about characters, events and places mentioned only briefly in The Lord of the Rings. In a few of the tales (written after The Lord of the Rings had been published and found success), Tolkien reaches back to rationalize or correct certain facets of his world that originally had been different, or mysterious.Īs with The Silmarillion, Christopher Tolkien edited and published Unfinished Tales before he had finished his study of the materials in his father's archive.
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Each tale is followed by a long series of Christopher's notes explaining inconsistencies and obscure points. Thus some of these are incomplete stories, while others are collections of "factual" information about Middle-earth. Unlike The Silmarillion, in which narrative fragments were modified to form a consistent and coherent work, the Unfinished Tales are presented as Tolkien left them, with little more than names changed. Tolkien that were not completed in his lifetime, but edited and concluded by Christopher Tolkien, and published in 1980. Unfinished Tales (fully titled Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth) is a collection of stories and alternate narratives by J.R.R.
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