The Shaping of Middle-Earth
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Overview:
- Title: The Shaping of Middle-Earth
- Author: J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien
- Year: 1986
- ISBN-10: 0395425018
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
- Price: $16.95
- Pages: 380
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: The Shaping of Middle-Earth
- Notes:
- Date from J. R. R. Tolkien: A Descriptive Bibliography by Hammond & Anderson.
- With dustjacket; price on inside front flap.
- First printing per printer's key: S 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.
- Indexed.
- Contents divided into seven parts: "Prose Fragments Following the Lost Tales," "The Earliest 'Silmarillion,'" "The Quenta," "The First 'Silmarillion' Map," "The Ambarkanta," "The Earliest Annals of Valinor," and "The Earliest Annals of Beleriand." Each text is accompanied by extensive notes and analysis by Christopher Tolkien. Content can be viewed at archive.org.