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Christopher Tolkien: Middle-Earth
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Tolkien had written an Epilogue for LotR that was deleted before publication. It is reprinted here. The Epilogue takes place sixteen years after Frodo’s departure from Middle-earth. Sam, Rosie, and their eight children are preparing for a visit from the King and reviewing the events of the intervening years. Imagine the most cloyingly sweet sentimental passages in Dickens enacted by the Smurfs and you have a good idea of how the Epilogue reads. The Epilogue’s alternate ending ... weakens the impact of what has gone before.
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When the result of Raw’s ‘Shire’ map was seen by Christopher Tolkien and the publishers the decision was taken to go ahead with a further commission to redraw the remaining maps. An additional map, a key map (not for sale) was drawn to give an overview of The West of Middle-earth which was to be reproduced as before in four sections on four pages. The West of Middle-earth limited edition print will be the first – and only – time this will be available as it was originally created by Stephen Raw.
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This is not an exhaustive list of literary influences on Tolkien but a few of the most influential texts along with other useful reading on early English literature. For a more complete list of Tolkien's sources, see Appendix A of T.A. Shippey's The Road to Middle-Earth.
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