The War of the Jewels (The History of Middle-Earth #11) -

J. R. R. Tolkien

HarperCollins

2002

496 páginas

16h 32m

ISBN-13: 9780261103245

The second of two companion volumes which documents the later writing of The Silmarillion, Tolkien’s epic tale of war.
In The War of the Jewels Christopher Tolkien takes up his account of the later history of The Silmarillion from the point where it was left in Morgoth’s Ring. The story now returns to Middle-earth, and the ruinous conflict of the High Elves and the Men who were their allies with the power fothe Dark Lord. With the publication in this book of all J.R.R. Tolkien’s later narrative writing concerned with the last centuries of the First Age, the long history of The Silmarillion, from its beginning in The Book of Lost Tales, is completed; and the enigmatic state of the work at his death can be understood.

This book contains the full text of the Grey Annals, the primary record of The War of the Jewels, and a major story of Middle-earth now published for the first time: the tale of the disaster that overtook the forest people of Brethil when Hurin the Steadfast came among them after his release from long years of captivity in Angband, the fortress of Morgoth.

Resenhas (1)

4 (Muito bom)

Muito Túrin e Húrin e a lenda dos primeiros elfos.

Muito bom, esse livro, que mostra a evolução dos contos do Silmarillion depois de Senhor dos Anéis. Tolkien tinha uma profunda obsessão com Túrin e Húrin, e vê-se claramente nesse livro; mas também já a lenda dos primeiros elfos a acordar em Cuiviénen, muito legal.