Shelfology Book Pairing

by Christopher Tolkien

This is the third volume in 'The History of Middle-Earth' series that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien's epic tale of war, 'The Silmarillion'.

by J. Tolkien

I will begin this book by returning to the quotation that I used to open Beren and Lúthien: a letter written by my father in 1964, in which he said that out of my head he wrote The Fall of Gondolin during sick-leave from the army in 1917, and the original version of Beren and Lúthien in the same year.