A Tolkien Bestiary
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A Tolkien Bestiary | |
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Author | David Day |
Publisher | Mitchell Beazley |
Released | 1979 |
Format | Paperback/Hardcover |
Pages | 288 |
ISBN | 0517120771 |
This is an A-Z guide to the flora and fauna of Middle-earth, first published in 1979. Day's sources are The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and his own imagination, and he can be accused of being a little too liberal in his interpretation: where, for example, does a "Kraken" appear in Tolkien's work? Although the book is less reliable as a Tolkien reference than similar works by Robert Foster and J.E.A. Tyler, it does include an impressive series of monochrome and full-colour illustrations. One for the collector; definitely not one for the purists.
Illustrators include; Michael Foreman, Lidia Postma, Ian Miller, Allan Curless, Sue Porter, Victor Ambrus and John Davis
Editions
US
- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Gramercy (February 5, 1995)
- ISBN-13: 978-0517120774
- Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.6 x 1.3 inches
UK
- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Harbour Publishing
- ISBN-13: 978-0920080474
- Product Dimensions: 27.9 x 21.6 x 2.5 cm
- Paperback
- Publisher: Ballantine Books
- ISBN-13: 978-0345282828
- Hardcover
- Publisher: Crescent Books (Aug 1990)
- ISBN-13: 978-0517473252
- Product Dimensions: 27.9 x 21.6 x 2 cm