{"id":113396,"date":"2022-06-23T06:03:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T11:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=113396"},"modified":"2022-06-23T06:03:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T11:03:45","slug":"the-fall-of-numenor-new-publication-coming-november-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2022\/06\/23\/113396-the-fall-of-numenor-new-publication-coming-november-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Fall of N\u00famenor’, new publication coming November 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Timed perfectly to coincide with Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power<\/a><\/em>, which takes place in the Second Age of Middle-earth, Harper Collins have announced their next Tolkien publication. The Fall of N\u00famenor<\/em>, edited by Brian Sibley<\/a>, brings together the key tales of the Second Age, in chronological order. Sure to be the perfect handbook for those who want to see exactly what Tolkien did write about this earlier period of his legendarium, it will not contain any previously unpublished text; but it does feature new art by beloved artist Alan Lee. It will be released in hardback and deluxe editions November 10th 2022, two months after the debut of The Rings of Power<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can read comments Brian Sibley made exclusively to our friends at The Tolkien Society on their website<\/a>. Further details can be found in the official press release from HarperCollins, below: <\/p>\n\n\n

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HarperCollins is proud to announce the publication in November 2022 of THE FALL OF N\u00daMENOR by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by writer and Tolkien expert, Brian Sibley, and illustrated by acclaimed artist, Alan Lee. The book will be published globally by HarperCollinsPublishers<\/em>\u00a0and in other languages by numerous Tolkien publishers worldwide.<\/p>

Presenting for the first time in one volume the events of the Second Age as written by J.R.R. Tolkien and originally and masterfully edited for publication by Christopher Tolkien, this new volume will include pencil drawings and colour paintings by Alan Lee, who also illustrated\u00a0The Lord of the Rings<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Hobbit<\/em>\u00a0and went on to win an Academy Award for his work on\u00a0The Lord of the Rings<\/em>\u00a0film trilogy.<\/p>

J.R.R. Tolkien famously described the Second Age of Middle-earth as a \u2018dark age, and not very much of its history is (or need be) told\u2019. And for many years readers would need to be content with the tantalizing glimpses of it found within the pages of\u00a0The Lord of the Rings<\/em>\u00a0and its appendices.<\/p>

It was not until Christopher Tolkien presented\u00a0The Silmarillion<\/em>\u00a0for publication in 1977 that a fuller story could be told for, though much of its content concerned the First Age of Middle-earth, there were at its close two key works that revealed the tumultuous events concerning the rise and fall of the island-kingdom of N\u00famenor, the Forging of the Rings of Power, the building of the Barad-d\u00fbr and the rise of Sauron, and the Last Alliance of Elves and Men.<\/p>

Christopher Tolkien provided even greater insight into the Second Age in\u00a0Unfinished Tales of N\u00famenor and Middle-earth<\/em>\u00a0in 1980, and expanded upon this in his magisterial 12-volume\u00a0History of Middle-earth<\/em>, in which he presented and discussed a wealth of further tales written by his father, many in draft form.<\/p>

Now, using \u2018The Tale of Years\u2019 in\u00a0The Lord of the Rings<\/em>\u00a0as a starting point, Brian Sibley has assembled from the various published texts in a way that tells for the very first time in one volume the tale of the Second Age of Middle-earth, whose events would ultimately lead to the Third Age, and the War of the Ring, as told in\u00a0The Lord of the Rings<\/em>.<\/p>

The Hobbit<\/em>\u00a0was first published in 1937 and\u00a0The Lord of the Rings<\/em>\u00a0in 1954\u2013<\/strong>5. Each has since gone on to become a beloved classic of literature and an international bestseller translated into more than 70 languages, collectively selling more than 150,000,000 copies worldwide. Published in 1977,\u00a0The Silmarillion<\/em>\u00a0sold more than one million copies in its first year of publication and has gone on to be translated into almost 40 languages.<\/p>

Brian Sibley says:\u00a0<\/strong>\u2018Since the first publication of\u00a0The Silmarillion<\/em>\u00a0forty-five years ago, I have passionately followed Christopher Tolkien\u2019s meticulous curation and scholarship in publishing a formidable history of his father\u2019s writings on Middle-earth. I am honoured to be adding to that authoritative library with\u00a0The Fall of N\u00famenor<\/em>. I hope that, in drawing together many of the threads from the tales of the Second Age into a single work, readers will discover \u2013 or\u00a0rediscover<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 the rich tapestry of characters and events that are a prelude to the drama of the War of the Ring as is told in\u00a0The Lord of the Rings<\/em>.<\/p>

Alan Lee says: \u2018<\/strong>It is a pleasure to be able to explore the Second Age in more detail, and learn more about those shadowy and ancient events, alliances and disasters that eventually led to the Third Age stories we are more familiar with. Wherever I had the opportunity when working on\u00a0The Lord of the Rings<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The Hobbit<\/em>, I tried to imbue pictures and designs with an appropriate antiquity, an overlayering of history and of echoes of those older stories, and\u00a0The Fall of N\u00famenor<\/em>\u00a0has proved a perfect opportunity to dig a little deeper into the rich history of Middle-earth.\u2019<\/p>

The Fall of N\u00famenor<\/em>\u00a0will be published by HarperCollins with a simultaneous global publication date of November 2022, and subsequently in translation around the world.<\/p>

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