The Return of the Shadow
J.R.R. Tolkien
Non-Fiction / Fantasy
The Return of the Shadow
by J.R.R. Tolkien
—· 497 p· 1988
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The Return of the Shadow is the first volume of the The History of The Lord of the Rings and the sixth volume of The History of Middle-earth. It is a history of the creation of The Lord of the Rings, a fascinating study of Tolkien's great masterpiece, from its inception to the end of the first volume, The Fellowship of the Ring.
In The Return of the Shadow (the abandoned title of the first volume of The Lord of the Rings) Christopher Tolkien describes, with full citation of the earliest notes,…
Part of a series
The History of Middle-earth
Vol. VI · 5 of 21 volumes
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The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two
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Pages
497
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Linguistic complexity
4/5
Complex
Thematic complexity
2/5
Accessible
Rating
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Reader feel
Worldbuilding10
Archival Value10
Scholarship9
Prose6
Narration6
Emotional depth5
Plot twists4
Pacing4
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