They note that although there are many other Tolkien references, having all the information in one affordable volume is "remarkable", and that it well complements Christopher Tolkien's 12-volume History of Middle-earth and the 50th anniversary edition of The Lord of the Rings. Laura Schmidt, reviewing the book for VII, writes that the husband and wife scholarship team of Hammond and Scull offer inside information on how The Lord of the Rings was constructed through many stages, and assist with difficult passages.
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He notes that at 900 pages "of small type" it is similar in length to the text, while the comments range from brief glosses to "a five-page essay" on the Elf-lady Galadriel, which he calls "by itself a major essay on the subject". This guide describes how to play through and complete Campaign 1, Campaign 2, Campaign 3, Encounter 1, Encounter 2, and Encounter 3 of Single-Player mode of the Lord of the Rings Adventure Card Game on the Standard and Advanced difficulties. As an annotated edition, it succeeds "admirably", Bratman writes, in documenting many words and phrases "worthy of specific relevant commentary", and in providing a scholar capable of doing such a task justice.
This new release will be the first time that an. Since many readers have neither of those, it also provides the first words of every cited paragraph, which in his view is at least workable. A new edition of The Lord of the Rings will feature 30 sketches and illustrations created by JRR Tolkien not seen in previous editions of the book. He notes that the omission makes keying the notes to the text difficult: page numbers are given for the three-volume Allen and Unwin 1954-1955 edition, and the HarperCollins/ Houghton Mifflin one-volume 2004 edition. an Annotated Lord of the Rings that for reasons of space omits the text of the work being discussed", by contrast with Douglas A. Reprinted for the first time since 1980, and corrected and expanded, is Tolkien's Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings (previously referred to as Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings), an index of persons, places, and things designed to aid translators in rendering Tolkien's work into foreign languages.ĭavid Bratman, reviewing the work for Tolkien Studies, described it as "simply. It reprints part of a 1951 letter in which Tolkien explains, at some length, his conception and vision of The Lord of the Rings. The book includes some previously unpublished material by Tolkien. Other sections cover the numerous maps of Middle-earth, chronologies of the story and its writing, and notes on the book and jacket design of the first editions of 1954–1955. Appendices, examining the evolution of the text, changes, inconsistencies, and errors, often using comments from Tolkien's own notes and letters. Hammond and Scull proceed chapter-by-chapter from the original foreword through to the end of The Lord of the Rings.