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Unfinished Tales Audiobook

by J. R. R. Tolkien
language: english
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, May of 2021 ‧
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JRR Tolkien’s legacy of short stories which inhabit the realm of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, on audio for the first time.Unfinished Tales is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring, and provides those who have read The Lord of the Rings with a whole collection of background and new stories from the twentieth century’s most acclaimed popular author.The book concentrates on the realm of Middle-earth and comprises such elements as Gandalf’s lively account of how it was that he came to send the Dwarves to the celebrated party at Bag-End, the emergence of the sea-god Ulmo before the eyes of Tuor on the coast of Beleriand, and an exact description of the military organization of the Riders of Rohan.Unfinished Tales also contains the only story about the long ages of Numenor before its downfall, and all that is known about such matters as the Five Wizards, the Palantiri and the legend of Amroth. The tales were collated and edited by JRR Tolkien’s son and literary heir, Christopher Tolkien, who provides a short commentary on each story, helping the reader to fill in the gaps and put each story into the context of the rest of his father’s writings.

Unfinished Tales

by J. R. R. Tolkien

Property Description
ISBN: 9780008371111
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Release Date: May of 2021
Language: English
Format: Audiobook
File Size B
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Categories: Audiobooks in English > Fiction > Romance
EAN: 9780008371111

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

J. R. R. Tolkien

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien nasceu na África do Sul, de pais ingleses, em 1892. Tinha 4 anos quando o pai morreu e foi já em Inglaterra que fez os seus estudos, concluídos em 1915 na Universidade de Oxford. Alistado no Exército Inglês, combateu na Primeira Grande Guerra e foi vítima da "febre-das-trincheiras", que o levou a estar hospitalizado durante um ano. A seguir à guerra trabalhou na equipa que organizou o "Dicionário Inglês de Oxford" e começou a lecionar, primeiro na Universidade de Leeds, depois na de Oxford. Tolkien era um especialista do Old English (que vai do séc. VIII a.C. ao séc. XII d.C.) e do Middle English (que vai do séc. XII ao XVI).
"O Hobbit", seu primeiro livro (já publicara textos académicos, nomeadamente, em colaboração com E. V. Gordon, "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight) escreveu-o em 1937, e a trilogia de "O Senhor dos Anéis" foi publicada nos anos de 1954 e 55. J.R.R. Tolkien viria a morrer em 1973, com 81 anos.

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