The TOLKIEN companion.

UK,12mo p/back,1st edn thus.VG++.No owner inscrptn and no price removal to rear cover.Bright,crisp,generally clean and sharp-cornered, glossy,colour pictorial black,red and gold Tolkien initialled design illustrated front cover with gilt lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present - and no reading creases to spine/backstrip.Top+fore-edges inevitably and ubiquitously aged/toned but generally bright and clean - free of foxing/ spotting; contents bright,crisp,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,unread - apart from my own collation.UK,12mo wraps,p/back 1st edn,2-530pp [paginated] includes an A - Z concordance/compendium,each letter in an illuminated/illustrated style,b/w maps,charts,genealogical tables and illustrations by Kevin Reilly throughout the text and the book; plus [unpaginated] front cover's design repeated to blank,an illustrated bordered title page,a dedication with acknowledgements to its verso,a preface,compiler's note,recto of first page and also to verso of last paginated page.
J.E.A. Tyler has compiled almost every known fact,name,'foreign' word, date,and etymological allusion occurring in Professor Tolkien's history of the Middle-earth of long ago into one complete and accessible concordance.It includes much of the High History of the Elven peoples, whose tragedy it was to introduce war into a hitherto innocent Middle-earth: it sheds new light on the origins of Morgoth the Enemy,on his Fall,and on the subsequent rise to power of his servant,Sauron the Great,Lord of the Rings: and it details the long and heroic story of how various Free Peoples - Elves,Men,Ents,Dwarves,and of course Hobbits - attempted,with varying success,to maintain themselves and their realms against the greatest Peril of the Ancient World.
There is also a detailed guide to the various Elvish writing-systems together with explanatory maps,charts and genealogical tables develoed by the compiler and drawn by Kevin Reilly. A highly collected Tolkien subject,and an unusual item/ephemera and will be an important and welcome addition to the Tolkien canon.Please browse my further inventory for a further,wider range of other Tolkien published and/or related titles,items,ephemera etc available in my MODERN FIRSTS2,GENERAL,1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die and CHILDRENS/ILLUSTRATED catalogues. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.