The Battle for Middle-earth
Subtitle: Tolkien's Divine Design in "The Lord of the Rings"
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: November 29, 2004
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, MI; Cambridge, UK
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9780802824974
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Literary Criticism; Christianity and literature; Books & Reading; Lord of the rings; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; History; England; Christianity - Literature & the Arts; 20th century; Religion; Tolkien, J. R. R; (John Ronald Reuel),; 1892-1973; Christian fiction, English; Fantasy fiction, English; History and criticism
First sentence: Tolkien introduces the saga of the Great War of the Ring with an author's foreword in which he categorically rejects the notion that his book has any "inner meaning or message."
Table of contents: title: Prologue : The Hobbit; title: Book I : The ring sets out; title: Book II : The ring goes south; title: Book III : The treason of Isengard; title: Book IV : The ring goes east; title: Book V : The war of the ring; title: Book VI : The end of the Third Age