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J. R. R. Tolkien

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The Shaping of Middle-earth: The Quenta, the Ambarkanta, and the Annals,... Summary

The Shaping of Middle Earth, Volume IV is the fourth in a series of twelve volumes of the History of Middle Earth. It follows two books of Lost Tales and the Lays of Beleriand. In The Shaping of Middle Earth, J. R. R. Tolkien's son Christopher analyzes his father's unpublished manuscripts.

Christopher Tolkien mostly describes the original "legendaria" or legendary material that is found in The Book of Lost Tales as...

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