The Histories, stand at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-earth and Valinor. Here is the whole, glorious history of Middle-earth that J.R.R. Tolkien brought to mythic and dramatic life with his classic fantasy novels of the Ring Cycle.

The History of Middle-Earth and The History of the Lord of the Rings are two sets of tales assembled by Christopher Tolkien from his father's notes and tell many of the stories behind the stories. The tales are set in the narrative frame of a great westward voyage over the Ocean, and in them are found the earliest accounts of Tolkien's world of Gods and Elves, Dwarves, Balrogs, and Orcs.

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