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If you want to learn more about J.R.R Tolkien's Middle-Earth then this book and its companion (The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two) are for you. This isn't so much a story per se as Tolkien's notes and drafts.
Barry E. (Barry) reviewed The Book of Lost Tales, Part One (The History of Middle-Earth, Vol. 1) on + 23 more book reviews
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Excellent book on the history of Middle Earth. A showing of Tolkien's genius in the creation of this world and it's epic heroes.
Stacy D. (Stacy1) reviewed The Book of Lost Tales, Part One (The History of Middle-Earth, Vol. 1) on + 90 more book reviews
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The Book of Lost Tales stands at the beginning of the entire concepton of Middle-earth and Valinor, for the Tales were the first form of the myths and legends that came to be called The Silmarillion.
By the author of Lord of the Rings
By the author of Lord of the Rings
Flo S. (biblioflo) reviewed The Book of Lost Tales, Part One (The History of Middle-Earth, Vol. 1) on
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The first major work of J.R.R. Tolkien, the history of middle-earth.
Stephanie B. (twinsmama) reviewed The Book of Lost Tales, Part One (The History of Middle-Earth, Vol. 1) on + 28 more book reviews
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Lost Tales (Book 1) is a highly interesting and valuable book in a variety of ways. It affords us an almost overtheshoulder view into the evolving creative process and genious of J.R.R. Tolkien in a new exciting aspect not seen before. In addition, it gives us much information and rich detail often highly illuminating that was later to be greatly compressed or passed over in the published the Silmarillion. Further, it sheds much new light on the way in which Tollkien's mythology was inteded in its orighion conception as a mythology for England. The Basis for which was easily seen in earlier published writings. Two other aspects are additionaly seen.. There are new linguistic information not known before. The superb, sensitive and extremely helpful commentary and editing done by Christopher Tolkien makes all this possible.