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J. R. R. Tolkien (ed. by Brian Sibley)
The Fall of Númenor and Other Tales from the Second Age of Middle-earth
New York: HarperCollins, 2022
The Fall of Númenor is a compilation of Tolkien’s writings on the Second Age of Middle-earth. Its central plotline is the rise and fall of the island kingdom of Númenor, which Tolkien modeled after Atlantis.
Following in Christopher Tolkien’s footsteps, editor Brian Sibley, known for his radio dramatizations of The Lord of the Rings and other works, has taken extracts pertaining to the Second Age from multiple sources — The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, The History of Middle-earth, The Nature of Middle-earth, The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, and The Lord of the Rings — and arranged them in chronological order. The texts...