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title=The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion| | |||
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author=[[Wayne G. Hammond]] and [[Christina Scull]]| | |||
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date=December 2005| | |||
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format=Hardcover with dustjacket| | |||
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'''The Lord fo the Rings: A Reader's Companion''' by is considered one of the greatest recent secondary works about [[J.R.R. Tolkien|Tolkien]]'s world. The book contains rare Tolkien-related extracts, poems, letters, manuscripts, interviews, as well as brand new material. | |||
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* Translations and primers on how to use Tolkien's invented languages | * Translations and primers on how to use Tolkien's invented languages | ||
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Author | Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull |
Publisher | HarperCollins (UK) & Houghton Mifflin (US) |
Released | December 2005 |
Format | Hardcover with dustjacket |
Pages | 894 |
ISBN | 0618642676 |
The Lord fo the Rings: A Reader's Companion by is considered one of the greatest recent secondary works about Tolkien's world. The book contains rare Tolkien-related extracts, poems, letters, manuscripts, interviews, as well as brand new material.
Contents
- Notes on significant changes made by the author and by Christopher Tolkien after his father's death
- A newly transcribed version of The Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings. Another version of this was published as Guide to Names in The Lord of the Rings in A Tolkien Compass (1975).
- Part of Tolkien’s 1951 letter to Milton Waldman, previously unpublished in the UK.
- A reproduction of a manuscript page showing a a synoptic time scheme used while writing The Lord of the Rings. It summarizes the movements of characters between the 8th and the 12th of March.
- Brief references to illustrations, maps, and earlier versions of the text
- References to people, places, and events that appear in other books by Tolkien
- Explanations of archaic and unusual words
- Translations and primers on how to use Tolkien's invented languages