THE HISTORY OF MIDDLE-EARTH :

THE WAR OF THE JEWELS: THE LATER SILMARILLION, PART TWO
First published in 1994, by HarperCollins. Volume 11 of The History of Middle-earth series.

In this eleventh volume of "The History of Middle-earth," 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. With the publication in this book of all Tolkien's later narrative writing concerned with the last centuries of the First Age, the long history of "The Silmarillion," from its beginnings in "The Book of Lost Tales," is completed; the enigmatic state of the work at his death can now be understood.

A chief element in "The War of the Jewels" is a major story of Middle-earth, now published for the first time—a continuation of the great saga of Túrin Turambar and his sister Niënor, the children of Húrin the Steadfast. This is the tale of the disaster that overtook the forest people of Brethil when Húrin came among them after his release from long years of captivity in Angband, the fortress of Morgoth. The uncompleted text of the "Grey Annals," the primary record of the "War of the Jewels," is given in full; the geography of Beleriand is studied in detail, with redrawings of the final state of the map; and a long essay on the names and relations of all the peoples of Middle-earth shows more clearly than any writing yet published the close connection between language and history in Tolkien's world. The text also provides new information, including some knowledge of the divine powers, the Valar.

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