Throughout 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 essays show that Tolkien's fertile imagination was
at work on Middle-earth's Second and Third Ages long before he explored
them in the Appendices to The Lord of the Rings . Here too are valuable
writings from Tolkien's last years: " The New Shadow," in Gondor of the
Fourth Age, and" Tal-elmar," the tale of the coming of the Nsmen-rean
ships.
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