The History of Middle-earth Box Set #4 : Morgoth's Ring / The War of the Jewels / The Peoples of Middle-earth / Index

Fourth in a series of hardcover boxsets celebrating the literaryachievement of Christopher Tolkien,featuring double-sided dust jacketsone side featuring artwork by John Howe, and the original graphic treatment on the other.Set 4 containsMorgoths Ring,The War of the Jewels,The Peoples of Middle-earth(Books 1012 of TheHistory of Middle-earth) andThe History of Middle-earth Index.

Morgoths Ringis the first of two companion volumes documenting the later writing ofThe Silmarillion.The text of the Annals of Aman, the Blessed Land in the far West, is given in full; while further writings reveal the nature of the problems that Tolkien explored in his later years, as new and radical ideas, portending upheaval in the old narratives, emerged at the heart of the mythology.

The War of the Jewelscontinues the account of the later history ofThe Silmarillion, as the story returns to Middle-earth, and the ruinous conflict of the High Elves and the Men who were their allies with the power of the Dark Lord.

The Peoples of Middle-earthis this capstone to Tolkiens history of Middle-earth, presenting a chronology of the later Ages, the Hobbit genealogies, and the Western language or Common Speech. Here too are valuable writings from Tolkiens last years: The New Shadow, in Gondor of the Fourth Age, and Tal-elmar, the tale of the coming of the Numenorean ships.

The History of Middle-earth Index presents the comprehensive indices of all twelve History of Middle-earth volumes in a single, easily referenced edition, serving as an essential complement to this extraordinary work.

Published together for the first time, these four books collect a fascinating period of Christopher Tolkiens forty-year career devoted to presenting his father J.R.R. Tolkiens writings on Middle-earth, a unique accomplishment that celebrates the greatest invented world in all of fantasy literature.