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Comics & Graphic Novels'The Tolkien Companion' is a brilliant guide to 'The Hobbit', 'The Lord of the Rings', and 'The Silmarillion'. It tells of many peoples, places, and things throughout Middle-earth and the Undying Lands. Anything I do not understand in author J.R.R. Tolkien's world is uniquely explained from this must-own book tribute. I highly recommend you buy 'The Tolkien Companion'!
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...I am a really big Lord of the Rings fan. I have read all the books! And the Tokien companion just caught my eye. Well I bought it and this book is like a dictonary of the whole Lord of the rings. It is great, it has almost everything, all except a few elvish words, which are hard to get. But other than that it is a great book!
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Wow! I just got this book, and I'd have to say it's pretty amazing. I have hardly found anything to be missing, and have enjoyed reading the articles. The entries are detailed, but no so much that you can't find important information. The only thing I haven't found in this book is translation of some Elvish words, but that can often be difficult, and I see why some terms aren't translated - but many are, that's very handy...
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.... There have been two editions of this book released, the first before the Silmarillion had seen publication. This first edition did in fact contain some guess work (something "Tolkien Experts" know all about), but Mr. Tyler's book offers a more comprehensive list of entries (and better written ones) than Robert Foster's "Guide to Middle Earth". They are both valuable resources if you want a clearer visualization of...
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and who is the sleeper in it? I originally checked this book out of the library with the intention of finding this out from it. Well, I didn't. In fact, in all the Tolkien books I have read, I have only come across one reference to it, and this, I think(I am not traipsing upstairs to my bookcase right this minute)was in Lost Tales 1(maybe 2). I think the Tower was on an island in the Shadowy Seas, and at the time of...
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