The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion
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| The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion | |
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| Author: Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull | |
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| Publisher: HarperCollins (UK) & Houghton Mifflin (US) | |
| Released: December 2005 | |
| Format: Hardcover with dustjacket | |
| Pages: 894 | |
| ISBN 0618642676 | |
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The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull 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.
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- Notes on significant changes made by the author and by Christopher Tolkien after his father's death
- A newly transcribed version of Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings. Another version of this was published as Guide to the 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- Part of Tolkien’s 1951 letter to Milton Waldman, previously unpublished in the UK.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
