The Book Of Lost Tales Jrr Tolkien. It is the story of an englishman (eriol) who finds the land of faery and is told a series of stories which is an history of the world and the elves, so these tales that were lost to humanity were given to eriol who wrote them down and called it the book of lost tales. Spring 1917 ‘the fall of gondolin’ is probably written before june.
The book of lost tales: The book of lost tales is actually a book that was written to be a mythology for england, which tolkien saw to be sorely lacking. The first version of the cottage of lost play is completed by this date.
The book of lost tales was the first major work of imagination by j.r.r.
The analytical, external observer's perspective, and the story itself. This is the place middle earth as indicated by tolkien was made. The story line that leaves this work is the same as that of simarillion spare that you will see that names are unique and there are different variants of the stories told. He began writing these stories during world war i, and his quest for perfection in their form and presentation was so rigorous that he was unable to publish any version of the silmarillion before his death in 1973.