The Tolkien Companion by J.E.A. Tyler [HARDCOVER RE-ISSUE] 2000 • Gramercy Books

The Tolkien Companion by J.E.A. Tyler and illustrated by Kevin Reilly HARDCOVER RE-ISSUE [2000] GRAMERCY BOOKS Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.   Dust jacket is in great shape; mild shelf / edge wear. Book itself has some discoloration to boards; but reads perfectly with clean, white pages. Between 1932 and 1953, Professor John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, of Oxford, England, translated four volumes compiled by the renowned Hobbits Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, written during the Third Age of Middle Earth, far longer ago than the Celtic, Germanic and Icelandic manuscripts Professor Tolkien was used to deciphering. The result was The Hobbit, and readers have never been the same since. In 1954, seventeen years after The Hobbit first appeared, its sequel, The Lord of the Rings was published, and it became the centerpiece of Tolkien's work. The Ring Epic covers approximately ten thousand years, and contains a vast amount of information as well as a huge variety of words and names w