The Peoples of Middle-earth: The History of Middle-earth, Vol. 12 "Paperback" " Fifty years and nearly

" Fifty years and nearly one hundred million American readers later comes a beautiful new one-volume collector's edition befitting the stature of this crown jewel of our list

A New York Times bestseller for twenty-one weeks upon publication

while the gods in Valinor in heated debate largely refuse to intervene in support of Ulmo's desires and designs

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drawn from molds of the original coins created for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug by the 3Foot7 Art Department

The Peoples of Middle-earth: The History of Middle-earth, Vol. 12 "Paperback" " Fifty years and nearlyThroughout this vast and intricate mythology, says Publishers Weekly, "one marvels anew at the depth, breadth, and persistence of J. R. R. Tolkien's labor. No one sympathetic to his aims, the invention of a secondary universe, will want to miss this chance to be present at the creation." In this capstone to that creation, we find the chronology of Middle earth's later Ages, the Hobbit genealogies, and the Western language or Common Speech. These early