The Shaping of Middle-Earth

J.R.R. Tolkien

first published 1986 Minotauro, 1999 hardcover 432 pages

History of Middle-Earth — book 4

In this truly indispensable reference, trace the development of the early lore of Middle-earth. Poems and prose, maps and chronologies, detours and diversions along the road to Middle-earth -- Christopher Tolkien has gathered archival materials that his late father, J.R.R. Tolkien, used to create the world and the history behind his classic stories. The Shaping of Middle-earth presents early versions of those first t...

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Editions we hold

Shaping of Middle-Earth edition · 2021 · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company · 400 pages · 9780358616313
Shaping of Middle-Earth edition · 2019 · HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 9780007348213
Shaping of Middle-Earth edition · 2010 · HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 9780007365289
The Shaping of Middle-Earth paperback · 2002 · HarperCollins Publishers Ltd · 400 pages · 9780261102187
Formacion de La Tierra Media, La hardcover · 1999 · Minotauro · 432 pages · 9788445071748
The Shaping of Middle-Earth paperback · 1995 · Del Rey · 480 pages · 9780345400437
The Shaping of Middle-Earth hardcover · 1991 · HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
The shaping of Middle-Earth edition · 1988 · Unwin Paperbacks · 380 pages
The shaping of Middle-earth edition · 1986 · Allen & Unwin · 380 pages
The shaping of Middle-earth hardcover · 1986 · Houghton Mifflin · 380 pages

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