Before there was Visualizing Middle-earth, before there was Suite101, Michael Martinez wrote Parma Endorion: Essays on Middle-earth, which earned widespread critical acclaim. Students, teachers, and librarians around the world downloaded the original Parma Endorion Web site. It was cited in numerous dissertations, masters' theses, and student papers for both high school and college. It has been recognized as one of the most authoritative Tolkien Web sites by Yahoo! Internet Life. In January 2002, Parma Endorion: Essays on Middle-earth, Third Edition was released as an eBook in Adobe Acrobat format. This edition features selected artwork by Anke Eismann and Rich Sullivan. The third edition is only available as an eBook, and it rose to become the number 1 download at Free-ebooks.net in its very first week. Eva Almeida, editor of eBooks'n'Bytes, declared Parma Endorion "the top download of the year" before the month of January was even finished. More than 4,000 copies were downloaded in the first week. More than 25,000 copies were downloaded in the first month. More than 45,000 copies were downloaded in the first quarter. There is simply nothing else like Parma Endorion: Essays on Middle-earth. Get your copy now!
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Visualizing Middle-earth is a collection of essays by well-known Internet writer and Tolkien researcher Michael Martinez. Covering topics ranging from the nature of magic in Middle-earth to whether Balrogs fly and what life in Eriador may have been like, the essays bring Martinez' forthright observations and analyses to print. No other Tolkien reference work tries to look at Middle-earth through the eyes and memories of its imaginary inhabitants.
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With the permission of the Tolkien family, Humphrey Carpenter has compiled a lengthy
selection of J.R.R. Tolkien's personal correspondence with friends, relatives,
professional contacts, and fans. Most of the letters concern Tolkien's fantasy
world, Middle-earth, and he divulges many previously unpublished secrets about the
Elves, the Dunedain, Hobbits, and more. But Tolkien also reveals his deep feelings
against the Nazis, his quite liberal (for his generation) views on women, marriage,
sex, and politics, and his genuine sense of humor and rich love of language and
history. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in serious Tolkien scholarship.
And now it is being reissued with a revised and expanded index compiled by Wayne
Hammond.
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First published in 1977, Carpenter's book has become a classic reference work
for serious Tolkien scholars as well as a must-read for dedicated fans. Well-written
in an engaging and informative style, the book provides insights into Tolkien's
relationship with his family, including the troubled early years he and Edith
Bratt shared together when their love was forbidden to them in Beren-Luthien
fashion (and the story of Beren and Luthien owes a great deal to the romance
of their early relationship).
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Pat Murphy, writing as Max Merriwell, has written a superb science fiction story about Bailey Beldon, a Norbit who dashes off on a mad adventure to the galactic center with a wandering instigator named Gitana, a group of Farr clones, and a wistful desire to experience an adventure. Fans of Tolkien's Hobbit will be thrilled with this joy-ride through new and familiar territory.
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