Morgoth´s Ring

the long version

'Morgoth's Ring,' the first of two companion volumes, Christopher Tolkien describes and documents the later history of 'The Silmarillion,' from the time when his father turned again to 'the Matter of the Elder Days' after 'The Lord of the Rings' was at last achieved. The text of the Annals of Aman, the 'Blessed Land' in the far West, is given in full; while in writings hitherto unknown is seen the nature of the problems that J.R.R. Tolkien explored in his later years, as new and radical ideas, p