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Author | J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin |
Released | November 20, 1985 |
Format | Hardcover |
Pages | 400 |
ISBN | 0395394295 |
The Lays of Beleriand was the third volume to The History of Middle-earth and gives us a privileged insight into the creation of the mythology of Middle-earth, through the alliterative verse tales of two of the most crucial stories in Tolkien's world - those of Túrin Turambar and of Beren and Lúthien. The first of the poems is the unpublished Lay of the Children of Húrin, narrating on a grand scale the tragedy of Túrin Turambar. The second is the moving Lay of Leithian, the chief source of the tale of Beren and Lúthien in The Silmarillion, telling of the Quest of the Silmaril and the encounter with Morgoth in his subterranean fortress.
Contents
- Preface
The Lay of the Children of Húrin
- Prologue (Húrin and Morgoth)
- I Túrin's Fostering
- II Beleg
- III Failivrin
Second Version of the Lay
- I (Hurin and Morgoth)
- II Turin's Fostering
Poems Early Abandoned
- The Flight of the Noldoli
- Fragment of an alliterative Lay of Eärendel
- The Lay of the Fall of Gondolin
The Lay of Leithian
Canto
- I (Of Thingol)
- II (Gorlim's betrayal and Beren's revenge)
- III (Beren's meeting with Luthien)
- IV (Beren before Thingol)
- V (Luthien's captivity in Doriath)
- VI (Beren in Nargothrond)
- VII (Beren and Felagund before Thu)
- VIII (Luthien in Nargothrond)
- IX (The defeat of Thu)
- X (The attack by Celegorm and Curufin)
- XI (The disguising of Beren and Luthien and the journey to Angband)
- XII (Fingolfin and Morgoth; the meeting with Carcharoth)
- XIII (Beren and Luthien in Angband)
- XIV (Escape from Angband)
- Unwritten Cantos
- Appendix: Commentary by C.S. Lewis
The Lay of Leithian Recommenced
- Note on the original submission on the Lay of Leithian and The Silmarillion in 1937
- Glossary of Obsolete, Archaic, and Rare Words and Meanings
- Index
The History of Middle-earth series | |
i.The Book of Lost Tales: Part One · ii.The Book of Lost Tales: Part Two · iii.The Lays of Beleriand · iv.The Shaping of Middle-earth · v.The Lost Road and Other Writings · vi.The Return of the Shadow · vii.The Treason of Isengard · viii.The War of the Ring · ix.Sauron Defeated · x.Morgoth's Ring · xi.The War of the Jewels · xii.The Peoples of Middle-earth · (Index) |