The Lost Road: And Other Writings (The History Of Middle-earth, Book
5) By Christopher Tolkien (Paperback, 1993)

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The fifth volume of the History of Middle-earth containing the early myths & legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war The Silmarillion At the end of 1937 J R R Tolkien reluctantly set aside his work on the myths & heroic legends of Valinor & Middle-earth & began The Lord of the Rings This fifth volume of The History of Middle-earth completes the examination of his writing up to that time Later forms of The Annals of Valinor & The Annals of Beleriand had been composed The Silmarillion was nearing completion in a greatly amplified form & a new Map had been made The legend of the Downfall of Numenor had entered the work including those central ideas the World Made Round & the Straight Path into the vanished West Closely associated with this was the abandoned time-travel' story The Lost Road linking the world of Numenor & Middle-earth with the legends of many other times & peoples Also included in this volume is the The Lhammas as essay on the complex languages & dialects of Middle-earth & an etymological dictionary' containing an extensive account of Elvish vocabularies