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The Return of the Shadow

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The Return of the Shadow Synopsis

The first part of The History of The Lord of the Rings, an enthralling account of the writing of the Book of the Century which contains many additional scenes and includes the unpublished Epilogue in its entirety.

The Return of the Shadow is the story of the first part of the history of the creation of The Lord of the Rings, a fascinating study of Tolkien's great masterpiece, from its inception to the end of the first volume, The Fellowship of the Ring.

In The Return of the Shadow (the abandoned title of the first volume of The Lord of the Rings) we see how Bilbo's magic ring evolved into the supremely dangerous Ruling Ring of the Dark Lord; and the precise, and astonishingly unforeseen, moment when a Black Rider first rode in to the Shire. The character of the hobbit called Trotter (afterwards Strider or Aragorn) is developed, and Frodo's companions undergo many changes of name and personality.

The book comes complete with reproductions of the first maps and facsimile pages from the earliest manuscripts.

This series of fascinating books has now been repackaged to complement the distinctive and classic style of the 'black cover' A-format paperbacks of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales.

About This Edition

ISBN: 9780261102248
Publication date: 4th February 2002
Author: J R R Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien
Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 497 pages
Series: The History of Middle Earth
Genres: Epic fantasy / heroic fantasy
Historical fantasy
Myths and Legends / Mythic fiction
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Speculative fiction
Action Adventure