The Book of Lost Tales: Part II (The History of Middle-Earth: Volume II)
By: Edited by Christopher Tolkien
Series: The History of Middle-Earth
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Boston, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 385
Other titles: The Book of Lost Tales II; The Book of Lost Tales: Part Two; The Book of Lost Tales: Part 2; The History of Middle-Earth, Volume 2
Description: The Book of Lost Tales contains the first forms of the myths that came to be called The Silmarillion. These include early accounts of Gods and Elves, Dwarves, Balrogs, and Orcs; of the geography and cosmography of their invented world, J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. Includes Beren and Luthien, Turin and the Dragon, and full narratives of the Necklace of the Dwarves and the Fall of Gondolin. Also includes commentary and poems associated with each tale.
Table of contents: label: Preface
title: 1; label: I. The Tale of Tinúviel
title: 3; label: Notes and Commentary
title: 48; label: II. Turambar and the Foalókë
title: 69; label: Notes and Commentary
title: 116; label: III. The Fall of Gondolin
title: 144; label: Notes and Commentary
title: 197; label: IV. The Nauglafring
title: 221; label: Notes and Commentary
title: 242; label: V. The Tale of Eärendel
title: 252; label: Éalá Éarendel Engla Beorhtast (poem)
title: 267; label: The Bidding of the Minstrel (poem)
title: 269; label: The Shores of Faëry (poem)
title: 271; label: The Happy Mariners (poem)
title: 273; label: VI. The History of Eriol or Ælfwine and the End of the Tales
title: 278; label: Prelude (poem)
title: 295; label: The Town of Dreams (poem)
title: 296; label: The City of Present Sorrow (poem)
title: 297; label: The Song of Eriol (poem)
title: 298; label: Ælfwine of England
title: 312; label: Appendix: Names in the Lost Tales - Part II
title: 335; label: Short Glossary of Obsolete, Archaic, and Rare Words
title: 350; label: Index
title: 353; title: {Librarian's Note: The poems shown above are not listed in the books "Contents" but have their own seperate title heading within their section.}