# The Shaping of Middle-earth

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- Book: [The Shaping of Middle-earth](https://www.bookquiver.com/j-r-r-tolkien/the-shaping-of-middle-earth) ([The Shaping of Middle-earth.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/j-r-r-tolkien/the-shaping-of-middle-earth.md))
- Authors: [J. R. R. Tolkien](https://www.bookquiver.com/j-r-r-tolkien)
- Publisher: del_rey
- ISBN: 978-03-4540-043-7
- Pages: 480
- Published: 1995-10-30
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Poems and prose, maps and chronologies, detours and diversions along the road to Middle-earth . . . Christopher Tolkien has gathered archival materials that his late father, J. R. R. Tolkien, used to create...