Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth
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Overview:
- Title: Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth
- Author: J. R. R. Tolkien
- Year: 1980
- ISBN-10: 0048231797
- Publisher: George Allen & Unwin
- Price: £7.50
- Pages: 472
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Collection
- Title Reference: Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth
- Notes:
- Title page states "Edited with introduction, commentary, index and maps by Christopher Tolkien".
- Cover and spine of the book titles it simply Unfinished Tales while the title page gives the complete title Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth.
- The map of Númenórë is inserted on an unnumbered page between page 168 and 169.
- Price from publisher's sticker on the front flap of the dustjacket (A&U £7.50)
- "© George Allen & Unwin (Publishers) Ltd, 1980"
- "First published in 1980" stated on the copyright page.
- The cover design represents a Númenorean helmet (karma), and is taken from the original coloured drawing by J. R. R. Tolkien, which he entitled: 'Helmet of a captain of the Uinendili, helm made of overlapping plates of metal, the 'fish-crest' of leather embossed and coloured' printed on the back flap of the dustjacket.
- Includes a fold-out map of The West of Middle-Earth at the End of the Third Age, attached to the inside of the back end paper.
- The collection is divided into four parts: Part One: The First Age (pages 15-162), Part Two: The Second Age (163-268), Part Three: The Third Age (269-374), and Part Four (375-415). There is also an Index (416-472).
- Each selection is followed by notes written by Christopher Tolkien.