The Fall of Númenor 1st Edition by JRR Tolkien, Alan Lee ISBN 0063280701 9780063280687

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ISBN 10: 0063280701
ISBN 13: 9780063280687
Author: JRR Tolkien, Alan Lee

J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings on the Second Age of Middle-earth, collected for the first time in one volume complete with new illustrations in watercolor and pencil by renowned artist Alan Lee.
J.R.R. Tolkien famously described the Second Age of Middle-earth as a “dark age, and not very much of its history is (or need be) told.” And for many years readers would need to be content with the tantalizing glimpses of it found within the pages of The Lord of the Rings and its appendices, including the forging of the Rings of Power, the building of the Barad-dûr and the rise of Sauron.
It was not until Christopher Tolkien published The Silmarillion after his father’s death that a fuller story could be told. Although much of the book’s content concerned the First Age of Middle-earth, there were at its close two key works that revealed the tumultuous events concerning the rise and fall of the island of Númenor. Raised out of the Great Sea and gifted to the Men of Middle-earth as a reward for aiding the angelic Valar and the Elves in the defeat and capture of the Dark Lord Morgoth, the kingdom became a seat of influence and wealth; but as the Númenóreans’ power increased, the seed of their downfall would inevitably be sown, culminating in the Last Alliance of Elves and Men.
Even greater insight into the Second Age would be revealed in subsequent publications, first in Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth, then expanded upon in Christopher Tolkien’s magisterial twelve-volume The History of Middle-earth, in which he presented and discussed a wealth of further tales written by his father, many in draft form.
Now, adhering to the timeline of “The Tale of Years” in the appendices to The Lord of the Rings, editor Brian Sibley has assembled into one comprehensive volume a new chronicle of the Second Age of Middle-earth, told substantially in the words of Tolkien from the various published texts, with new illustrations in watercolor and pencil by the doyen of Tolkien art, Alan Lee.

The Fall of Númenor 1st Edition Table of contents:

• Introduction: The Saga of ‘A Dark Age’
  An overview of the Second Age’s significance in Tolkien’s legendarium.

• Before the Second Age
  Contextual background leading into the events of the Second Age.

• The Tale of Years (Chronology of the Westlands)
  A detailed timeline covering key events such as the founding and fall of Númenor, the forging of the Rings of Power, and the Last Alliance of Elves and Men.

Appendices

• Appendix A: A Brief Chronicle of the Third Age of Middle-earth
  A concise history of the Third Age, setting the stage for the events of The Lord of the Rings.

• Appendix B: The Númenórean Chapters from The Lost Road
  Explorations of Númenórean history and its connections to the First Age.

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