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Name: J R R Tolkien - [History of Middle-earth 07] - History of the Lord of the Rings 02] - The Treason of Isengard (retail) (epub)
Format: epub
Size: 8.4 MB

Title: The Treason of Isengard
Author: Christopher Tolkien
Language: English
Year: 2006
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: HMH Books
ISBN: 0752438565
Total pages: 144 str.

The Treason of Isengard is the seventh volume in Christopher Tolkien's History of Middle-earth and the second in his account of the evolution of The Lord of the Rings. This book follows the long halt in the darkness of the Mines of Moria (which ended The Return of the Shadow) and traces the tale into new lands south and east of the Misty Mountains. Tolkien introduces us to Lothlorien, land of the elves, where we meet the Ents, the Riders of Rohan, and Saruman the White in the fortress of Isengard. In brief outlines and penciled drafts dashed down on scraps of paper are the first entry of Galadriel; the earliest ides of the history of Gondor; and the original meeting of Aragorn with Eowyn, its significance destined to be wholly transformed. Conceptions of what lay ahead dissolve as the story takes its own paths, as in the account of the capture of Frodo and his rescue by Sam Gamgee from Minas Morgul, written long before J.R.R. Tolkien actually reached that point in the writing...