The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien is a selection of J. R. R. Tolkien's letters published in 1981, edited by Tolkien's biographer Humphrey Carpenter assisted by Christopher Tolkien. The selection contains 354 letters, dating between October 1914, when Tolkien was an undergraduate at Oxford, and 29 August 1973, four days before his death. The letters can be roughly divided in four categories: The last category is especially of interest to Tolkien fans, as it provides a lot of information about Middle-earth which cannot be found anywhere in the works published by Tolkien
Risk: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy Edition Risk: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy Edition Risk: "The Lord of the Rings" Trilogy Edition is a board game based upon the game Risk and in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional land of Middle-earth rather than the actual Earth. The board is divided into nine regions of Middle-earth taken from "The Lord of the Rings". The box contains: a rules manual; a map on a cardboard board, depicting the northwest area of Middle-earth at the end of the Third Age; playing pieces—two light-colored sets containing Elven Archers, Riders of Rohan, Eagles and elven-style leader shields for good armies, and