Tolkien's Legendarium
Subtitle: Essays on The History of Middle-earth (Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction and Fantasy)
Contributors: Verlyn Flieger (Editor); Carl F. Hostetter (Editor)
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: January 30, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780313305306
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973; Fiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Fantasy; Literary Criticism; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Science Fiction & Fantasy; Literary Criticism & Collections / Science Fiction; Fantasy - General; (John Ronald Reuel),; 1892-1973; Criticism, Textual; Fantasy literature, English; History and criticism; History of Middle-earth; Middle Earth (Imaginary place); Tolkien, J. R. R
First sentence: When, in the autumn of 1937, J.R.R. Tolkien offered The History of Middle-earth-or at least some parts of it-to his publisher it was turned down flat.