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An unfinished work is any creative work that was not completed at the time of the creator's death. This can include books, plays, poems, musical compositions, artworks, etc. This type has no properties. Instances should be co-typed with the type appropriate to the kind of work it was going to be....
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| x The Love of the Last Tycoon |
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The Love of The Last Tycoon: A Western is an unfinished novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, compiled and published posthumously.
The novel centers on the life of film executive Monroe Stahr in Hollywood in the 1930s. Stahr is modelled on the life of film...
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| x The Mystery of Edwin Drood |
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood is the final novel by Charles Dickens. The novel was left unfinished at the time of Dickens' death and thus how it might have ended remains unknown. The novel is named after Edwin Drood but it mostly tells the story of his...
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| x The Poodle Springs Story | Robert B. Parker | Poodle Springs |
"The Poodle Springs Story" is the working title of an unfinished novel by Raymond Chandler. It was first published in 1962 in Raymond Chandler Speaking, and later completed by Robert B. Parker as Poodle Springs.
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| x Shada |
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Shada is an unaired serial of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was intended to be the final serial of the 1979-80 season (Season 17), but was never completed due to a strike at the BBC during filming. In 1992, its...
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| x Symphony No. 8 |
Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in B minor, commonly known as the Unfinished (German: Unvollendete), was started in 1822 but left with only two movements known to be complete, even though Schubert would live for another six years. A scherzo, nearly...
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| x Symphony No. 9 |
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Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 9 in D minor is the last Symphony upon which he worked, leaving the last movement incomplete at the time of his death in 1896. The symphony was premiered under Ferdinand Löwe in Vienna in 1903, after Bruckner's death....
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| x Symphony No. 10 |
The Symphony No. 10 by Gustav Mahler was written in 1910, and was his final composition. At the time of Mahler's death the composition was substantially complete as a draft, but was unperformable in that state.
Mahler started his work on his Tenth...
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| x Symphony No. 10 |
Schubert's Symphony No. 10 in D major, D 936A is an unfinished work that survives in a partly fragmentary piano sketch. Only properly identified in the 1970s, it has been orchestrated by Brian Newbould in a conjectural completion that has...
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| x Symphony No. 3 | Anthony Payne | Edward Elgar: the sketches for Symphony No 3 elaborated by Anthony Payne |
Edward Elgar's Third Symphony was incomplete at the time of his death in 1934. Elgar left 130 pages of sketches which the British composer Anthony Payne worked on for many years, producing a complete symphony in 1997, officially known as "Edward...
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| x La rondine |
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Lorenzo Ferrero | La rondine by Giacomo Puccini - Third version completed by Lorenzo Ferrero |
La rondine (The Swallow) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on a libretto by Alfred Maria Willner and Heinz Reichert. It was first performed at the Grand Théâtre de Monte Carlo (or the...
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| x Viola Concerto | Tibor Serly |
Béla Bartók wrote his Viola Concerto (BB128) in July-August 1945, in Saranac Lake, New York, while suffering from the terminal stages of leukemia. It was a response to a commission by William Primrose. Along with the Piano Concerto No. 3, it is his...
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| Nelson Dellamaggiore | ||||
| x Piano Concerto No. 3 |
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 3 in E-flat major, Op. post. 75, was begun as a symphony in E flat. The symphony was abandoned, only to become a a single-movement Allegro brillante when published posthumously. Controversy remains,...
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| x Piano Concerto No. 6 |
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Sergei Prokofiev did not manage to compose more than a few bars of his Piano Concerto No. 6 (Op. 134, sometimes Op. 133) before his death in 1953 so it is nigh on impossible to reconstruct the underlying musical ideas and complete it.
The work is...
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| x Cello Concerto |
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The Cello Concerto of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is a conjectural work based in part on a 60-bar fragment found on the back of the rough draft for the last movement of the composer's Sixth Symphony, the Pathétique. In 2006, Ukrainian composer and...
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| x Die drei Pintos | Gustav Mahler |
Die drei Pintos (The Three Pintos) is a comic opera of which Carl Maria von Weber began composing the music, working on a libretto by Theodor Hell. The work was completed about 65 years after Weber's death by Gustav Mahler.
In 1821, Theodor Hell...
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| x The Art of Fugue |
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The Art of Fugue or The Art of the Fugue (original German: Die Kunst der Fuge), BWV 1080, is an incomplete masterpiece by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). The work was most likely started at the beginning of the 1740s, if not earlier. The first...
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| x Khovanshchina |
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov |
Khovanshchina (Russian: Хованщина, Hovánščina, sometimes rendered The Khovansky Affair) is an opera (subtitled a 'national music drama') in five acts by Modest Mussorgsky. The work was written between 1872 and 1880 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The...
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| x Lulu |
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Friedrich Cerha |
Lulu is an opera by the composer Alban Berg. The libretto was adapted by Berg himself from Frank Wedekind's plays Erdgeist (Earth Spirit, 1895) and Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora's Box, 1904).
Berg first saw Die Büchse der Pandora in 1905 in a...
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| x Noé |
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Georges Bizet |
Noé (Noah) was the last opera of the composer Fromental Halévy.
The opera's libretto is by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges, who had written the book for the composer's first opera to reach performance, L'artisan, (1827). Noé is based on the...
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| x Prince Igor |
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov |
Prince Igor (Russian: Князь Игорь, Knyaz' Igor) is an opera in four acts with a prologue by Alexander Borodin. The composer adapted the libretto from the East Slavic epic The Lay of Igor's Host, which recounts the campaign of Russian prince Igor...
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| x Rodrigue et Chimène | Edison Denisov |
Rodrigue et Chimène (English: Rodrigo and Ximena) is an unfinished opera in three acts by Claude Debussy. The French libretto, by Catulle Mendès, is based on the plays Las Mocedades del Cid by Guillén de Castro y Bellvís and Corneille's Le Cid which...
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| x Zhenitba |
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Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov |
Zhenitba (Russian: Женитьба, Zhenit'ba, Marriage) is an unfinished opera begun in 1868 by Modest Mussorgsky to his own libretto based on Nikolai Gogol's comedy (1842). The Marriage is a satire of courtship and cowardice, which centres around a young...
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| x Salammbô |
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Salammbô [alternative title The Libyan] (Russian: Ливиец) is an unfinished opera-project in 4 acts by the Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky, to his own libretto based on the novel of the same title by Gustave Flaubert (1862), as well as poems by...
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| x Requiem |
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Franz Xaver Süssmayr |
The Requiem Mass in D minor (K. 626) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was composed in Vienna in 1791, during the last year of the composer's life. The requiem was Mozart's last composition and is one of his most popular and respected works, although the...
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| x The Original of Laura |
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Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Knopf (November 17, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 0307271897 ISBN-13: 978-0307271891
The Original of Laura is a novel that Vladimir Nabokov was writing at the time of his death in 1977. It has never been published...
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| x Turandot |
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Franco Alfano |
Turandot is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, set to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. Though Puccini's first interest in the subject was based on his reading of Friedrich Schiller's adaptation of the play, his work...
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| Luciano Berio | ||||
| x The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey |
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The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey (published in the northern-hemisphere autumn of 2004), the unfinished twenty-first novel in the Aubrey-Maturin series, appeared in the United States of America under the simpler title of 21. It comprises...
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| x L'oca del Cairo |
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L'oca del Cairo is an opera buffa in three acts, K. 422, begun by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in July 1783 but abandoned in October. The complete three act libretto by Giovanni Battista Varesco remains. Mozart completed seven of the ten numbers of the...
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| x Night on Bald Mountain |
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov |
Night on Bald Mountain is a composition by Modest Mussorgsky that exists in at least two versions — a seldom performed 1867 version or a later (1886) and very popular 'fantasy for orchestra' arranged by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, A Night on the Bare...
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| x Orgelbüchlein |
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The Orgelbüchlein ("Little Organ Book") was written by Johann Sebastian Bach during the period of 1708–1714, while he was in court organist at the ducal court in Weimar. It was planned as a set of 164 chorale preludes (smaller-scale compositions...
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| x Mysterium |
Mysterium is an unfinished musical work by composer Alexander Scriabin. He started working on the composition in 1903, but it was incomplete at the time of his death in 1915.
Scriabin planned that the work would be synesthetic, exploiting the senses...
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| x The Fair at Sorochintsï |
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Vissarion Shebalin |
The Fair at Sorochyntsi (Russian: Сорочинская ярмарка, Sorochinskaya yarmarka, Sorochyntsi Fair) is a comic opera in three acts by Modest Mussorgsky, composed between 1874 and 1880 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The composer wrote the libretto, which is...
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| x Aschenbrödel | Josef Bayer |
Aschenbrödel or Aschenbroedel (Cinderella) is a ballet written by Johann Strauss II. He had written all the principal parts of the ballet, and was intending to fill in the orchestration as time permitted. However, Strauss died in 1899, and it was...
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| x String Quartet | Vincent d'Indy |
The String Quartet in C minor, op. 35, was begun by Ernest Chausson in 1898 and the composer had fully scored all but part of the third and last movement before he died in an accident in 1899. Relying on the drafts left behind by Chausson, Vincent d...
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| x Maddalena | Edward Downes |
Maddalena is an opera in one act by the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev, who also wrote the libretto, based on a play by Magda Gustavovna Lipen. Written between 1911 and 1913 while Prokofiev was still a student at Saint Petersburg Conservatory and...
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| x Ivan IV |
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Ivan IV is an opera in five acts by Georges Bizet, with a libretto by Francois-Hippolyte Leroy and Henri Trianon.
A libretto on the subject of Ivan the Terrible was offered to Charles Gounod in January 1856 by the general administrator of the Paris...
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| x Almast |
Almast is the only opera by the Armenian composer Alexander Spendiaryan.
In 1916 Spendiarian met Armenian poet Hovhannes Tumanian, who suggested three of his poems "Anush", "Parvana" and "The Siege of the Tmbouk Castle" as themes for a national...
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| x Universe Symphony | Larry Austin |
The Universe Symphony is an unfinished work by American classical music composer Charles Ives.
The date of composition is unknown, but he probably worked on it periodically between 1911 and 1928. Intended to be a "spatial" composition for two or...
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| x Liliom |
Liliom is a 1919 Hungarian film directed by Michael Curtiz. The film was aborted in mid-production because of Curtiz's flight from Hungary, and never finished.
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| x Aeneid |
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| x Blind Love |
Blind Love was an unfinished novel by Wilkie Collins, which he left behind on his death in 1889. It was completed by historian and novelist Sir Walter Besant.
Collins's novel had already begun serialization in The Illustrated London News, even...
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| x The Journal of Julius Rodman |
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The Journal of Julius Rodman, Being an Account of the First Passage across the Rocky Mountains of North America Ever Achieved by Civilized Man is an unfinished serial novel by American author Edgar Allan Poe.
Six installments of the novel were...
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| x Bouvard et Pécuchet |
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Bouvard et Pécuchet is an unfinished satirical work by Gustave Flaubert, published in 1881 after his death in 1880.
Although conceived in 1863 as Les Deux Cloportes ("The Two Woodlice"), and partially inspired by a short story of Barthélemy Maurice ...
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| x Symphony in E flat |
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Tchaikovsky's Symphony in E flat, op. posthumous, was commenced after the Symphony No. 5, and was intended initially to be the composer's next (i.e., sixth) symphony. Tchaikovsky abandoned this work in 1892, only to reuse much of it in the Third...
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| x Take your Son, Sir! |
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Take Your Son, Sir! (1851-6) is an unfinished painting by Ford Madox Brown which depicts a woman showing her newborn son to its father. She is offering her baby towards the viewer of the painting, who is implicitly equated with the father - seen in...
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| x A Florentine Tragedy |
A Florentine Tragedy is a fragment of a never-completed play by Oscar Wilde. The subject concerns Simone, a wealthy 16th century Florentine merchant who finds his wife Bianca in the arms of a local prince, Guido Bardi. After feigning hospitality,...
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| x The Professor |
The Professor is a 1919 American comedy silent film made at the Chaplin Studios for the First National film company starring Charlie Chaplin. However, the film was never released or even completed. Chaplin abandoned production after finishing only...
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| x Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman |
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Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman is Mary Wollstonecraft's unfinished novelistic sequel to her revolutionary political treatise A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). The Wrongs of Woman was published posthumously in 1798 by her husband, William...
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| x Slipstream |
Slipstream is a 1967 film directed and written by Steven Spielberg and Roger Ernest that went unfinished.
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| x The Freak |
The Freak was an unfinished dramatic comedy from Charles Chaplin. The story revolved around a young South American girl who unexpectedly sprouts a pair of wings. She is kidnapped and taken to London, where her captors cash in by passing her off as...
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| x De vulgari eloquentia |
De vulgari eloquentia (On Eloquence in the vernacular) is the title of an essay by Dante Alighieri, written in Latin and initially meant to consist of four books, but abandoned in the middle of the second. It was probably composed shortly after...
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| x Play Without a Title |
Play Without a Title, or Untitled Play (Comedia sin título), is an unfinished experimental play by the Spanish twentieth-century modernist playwright Federico García Lorca. Lorca conceived the work as a three-act drama and had referred to it by the...
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| x Viola |
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Viola is an unfinished comic opera by Bedřich Smetana. The libretto was written by Eliška Krásnohorská, and is based on Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night. The opera was left incomplete upon Smetana's death in 1884.
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| x Ludovic |
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Ludovic is a two act opéra comique to a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges. The music, by Ferdinand Hérold, was left unfinished at his death, and the work was completed by Fromental Halévy.
The plot, elements of which were later...
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| x Titus Awakes |
Titus Awakes is the editorial title applied to a novel being planned by Mervyn Peake at the time he became too ill to write, about 1960. It was to have been the fourth novel in the Gormenghast series, after Titus Groan, Gormenghast, and Titus Alone....
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| x La Vie de Marianne |
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La Vie de Marianne is an unfinished novel by Pierre de Marivaux.
The novel was written in sections, eleven of which appeared between 1731 and 1745. A Continuation was produced by Madame Riccoboni, but this too is incomplete.
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| x Hornblower and the Crisis |
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Hornblower and the Crisis is a 1967 historical novel by C. S. Forester. It forms part of the Horatio Hornblower series, and as a result of C.S. Forester's death in 1966, it was left unfinished. There is a one-page summary of the last several...
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| x On Certainty |
On Certainty (Über Gewißheit) is a philosophical book composed from the notes written by Ludwig Wittgenstein just prior to his death. Some of the notes were left at the home of G. E. M. Anscombe, who latter compiled the notes into a book.
The book's...
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| x The Book of Lost Tales |
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The Book of Lost Tales is the title of a collection of early stories by J. R. R. Tolkien, and of the first two volumes of Christopher Tolkien's 12-volume series The History of Middle-earth, in which he presents and analyzes the manuscripts of those...
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| x The Lays of Beleriand |
The Lays of Beleriand, published in 1985, is the third volume of Christopher Tolkien's 12-volume book series, The History of Middle-earth, in which he analyzes the unpublished manuscripts of his father J. R. R. Tolkien.
The book contains the long ...
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