The History of Middle-earth

The History of Middle-earth (abbreviated sometimes as HoME or THOME) is a 13-volume series of books that collects and analyses material relating to Middle-earth, twelve of which were compiled and edited by the son of J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien. The series is collectively a full study of the evolution of Tolkien's legendarium, featuring hundreds of transcripts, revisions, and poems. 
Materials relating to are not included, but are covered instead in the separate authorized book, , by John D. Rateliff.
== Overview ==
Most of the content consists of earlier versions of already published works by Tolkien, while other portions are completely new material. These books are exceedingly detailed, to the point of documenting scraps of paper (of J.R.R. Tolkien's) that had been erased multiple times with many footnotes. Christopher Tolkien thoroughly documents the history of the writing of the Middle-earth stories, with as much detail as his father documented the fictional history of Middle-earth itself.
The first two books introduce readers to The Book of Lost Tales, a mythology for England from which Tolkien drew ideas that eventually became the 'Silmarillion' mythology. The next three books follow the history of the emerging early mythology, usually known as The Silmarillion. The discussion of the published book is deferred until book ten. Books six through nine discuss the development of , book nine's second half discussing the story of Númenor (the first versions of which were covered in Book Five). Book ten and eleven discuss the Annals of Beleriand and Annals of Aman, works which were developed together with the Silmarillion tradition and which also served as source material for the published Silmarillion. Book twelve discusses the development of the Appendices to The Lord of the Rings, followed by some assorted essays from Tolkien's last years of life.
Though not officially labeled as such, Unfinished Tales and are often considered the unofficial thirteenth and fourteenth volumes of the series.
#The Book of Lost Tales Part One (1983)
#The Book of Lost Tales Part Two (1984)
#The Lays of Beleriand (1985)
# (1986)
#The Lost Road and Other Writings (1987)
#The Return of the Shadow£ (1988)
#The Treason of Isengard£ (1989)
#The War of the Ring£ (1990)
#Sauron Defeated£ (1992)
#Morgoth's Ring (1993)
#The War of the Jewels (1994)
# (1996)
# (2002)
:£ Released as part of the four volume set, .
The official thirteenth volume, The History of Middle-earth: Index, completely integrates all indices from the other twelve books into one index.
After the twelfth volume was released, the most prominent Tolkien scholars at the time studied the series, and wrote essays on it, culminating in Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth, published in 2000.
== Editions ==
The History of Middle-earth was first published by Houghton Mifflin Company starting in 1986, as single-colored hardcover volumes. In 2003, Del Rey Books (of Ballantine Books) published smaller mass-market paperback editions, with illustrated covers.
The collection was published as a single, three-volume set for the first time in 2002, by HarperCollins. In 2015, HarperCollins released a paperback edition of each volume, with black spines and cover-art by John Howe. In 2017, they released a special "collector's edition" of the series contained in three large, boxed volumes.
== Gallery ==
THOMEHardcovers.jpg|All 13 separate volumes in hardcover
== Translations ==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Die Geskiedenis van Middelste-aarde
Albanian 	Historia e Tokës së Mesme
Amharic 	መካከለኛ-የምድር ታሪክ
Arabic 	تاريخ الأرض الوسطى
Azerbaijani 	Orta Yerin Tarixi
Belarusian Cyrillic	Гісторыя Міжзем'е
Bengali 	মধ্যম পৃথিবীর ইতিহাস
Bosnian 	Povijest Međuzemlja
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Историята на средната земя
Burmese 	အလယ်အလတ်မြေ၏သမိုင်း
Cambodian 	ប្រវត្តិសាស្រ្តនៃផែនដីពាក់កណ្តាល
Catalan 	La Història de la Terra Mitjana
Cebuano 	Ang Kasaysayan sa mga tunga-tunga-yuta
Chinese 	中土世界的歷史
Corsican 	A Storia di a Terra Media
Croatian 	Povijest Međuzemlja
Czech 	Historie Středozemě
Danish 	Historien om Midgård
Dutch 	De Geschiedenis van Midden-aarde
Esperanto 	La Historio de Mezo-tero
Estonian 	Keskmaa Ajalugu
Finnish 	Keski-maan Historia
French 	L'Histoire de la Terre du Milieu
Frisian 	De Skiednis fan midden-ierde
Galician 	A Historia da Terra-media
Georgian 	შუახმელეთის ისტორია
German 	Die Geschichte Mittelerdes
Greek 	Η Ιστορία της Μέσης Γης
Gujarati 	મધ્યમ પૃથ્વી ઇતિહાસ
Hausa 	Tarihin Tsakiyar duniya
Hebrew 	ההיסטוריה של הארץ התיכונה
Hindi 	मध्य पृथ्वी के इतिहास
Hmong 	Lub keeb kwm ntawm nruab nrab-lub ntiaj teb
Hungarian 	Középfölde Históriája
Icelandic 	Saga af Miðgarði
Indonesian 	Sejarah Tengah-bumi
Irish Gaelic 	Stair na lár-domhain
Italian 	La Storia della Terra di mezzo
Japanese 	中つ国の歴史
Javanese 	Sajarah Tengah-bumi
Kannada 	ಇತಿಹಾಸ ಮಧ್ಯಮ ಭೂಮಿಯ
Kazakh 	Орта-жер тарихы (Cyrillic) Orta-jer tarïxı (Latin)
Korean 	가운데땅의 역사
Kurdish 	Li ser Dîroka Navîn-erd (Kurmanji)
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	Орто жер Тарыхы
Laotian 	ປະຫວັດສາດຂອງພາກກາງ, ແຜ່ນດິນໂລກi
Latvian 	Vēsture Vidējā-zemes
Lithuanian 	Viduržemio istorija
Luxembourgish 	D'Geschicht vun Mëtt Äerd
Macedonian Cyrillic	историјата на Блискиот Земјата
Malaysian 	Sejarah pertengahan bumi
Marathi 	मध्य-पृथ्वी इतिहास
Maltese 	L-istorja ta ' l-ert tan-nofs
Mongolian Cyrillic 	дунд-дэлхий Түүхийн
Nepalese 	मध्य-पृथ्वीको इतिहास
Norwegian 	Historien om Midgard
Occitan 	l’Istòria de la Tèrra Mejana
Pashto 	د منځني ځمکه د تاريخ
Persian 	تاریخ از میانه زمین
Polish 	Historia Śródziemia
Portuguese 	A História da Terra-média
Punjabi 	ਮੱਧ-ਧਰਤੀ ਦੇ ਇਤਿਹਾਸ ਨੂੰ
Romanian 	Istoria Pământului de Mijloc
Russian 	История Средиземья
Samoan 	Le Talafaasolopito o le Lalolagi-ogatotonu
Scottish Gaelic 	Eachdraidh de Meadhan-talamh
Serbian 	Повијест Међуземља (Cyrillic) Povijest Međuzemlja (Latin)
Sindhi 	وچ ۾ زمين جي تاريخ
Sinhalese 	මැද-පෘථිවිය ඉතිහාසය
Spanish 	La historia de la Tierra Media
Sundanese 	Nu Sajarah Tengah-bumi
Swahili 	Historia ya Dunia-atikati
Swedish 	Historia Midgård
Tajik Cyrillic 	Таърихи Миёна-замин
Tamil 	மத்திய-புவி வரலாறு
Tatar 	Урта җир тарихы
Telugu 	మధ్య భూమి యొక్క చరిత్ర
Thai 	ประวัติศาสตร์มิดเดิลเอิร์ธ
Turkish 	Orta Dünya Tarihi
Turkmen 	Orta Ýer Taryhy
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Iсторія Середзем'я
Urdu 	مڈل-زمین کی تاریخ
Uzbek 	Ўрта жаҳон тарихи (Cyrillic) O'rta jahon tarixi (Latin)
Welsh 	Hanes Daear Ganol
Xhosa 	Yeembali KuMbindi-emhlabeni
Yiddish 	די געשיכטע פון מיטל-ערד
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