TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tolkien,J.R.R.
AU  - Tolkien,Christopher
TI  - The lays of Beleriand
T2  - History of Middle-earth
SN  - 0345388186
PY  - 1994///, ©1985
CY  - New York
PB  - Ballantine Books
KW  - Middle Earth (Imaginary place)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Fantasy fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes index; Preface -- I. The Lay of the children of Húrin. Túrin son of Húrin & Glórund the Dragon ; The second version of the Children of Húrin -- II. Poems early abandoned. The flight of the Noldoli ; Fragment of an alliterative Lay of Eärendel ; The Lay of the fall of Gondolin -- III. The Lay of Leithian. The gest of Beren and Lúthien ; The unwritten cantos ; Appendix : commentary by C.S. Lewis -- IV. The lay of Leithian recommenced -- Note on the original submission of the Lay of Leithian and the Silmarillion in 1937 -- Glossary of obsolete, archaic, and rare words and meanings
N2  - The Lays of Beleriand are epic stories in verse form of the Elder days of Middle-earth. Contained herein is The Lay of the Children of Hurin, which tell the tale of Turin Son of Hurin and Glorund the Dragon. The Lay of Leithian tells of Thingol, of the meeting of Beren and Luthien, and of the battle between Fiingolfin and Morgoth. Together these Lays form an important backdrop to The Silmarillion, and illuminate some of the oldest tales of Middle-earth
ER  -