From Back Cover:
A comprehensive, sumptuously illustrated reference guide, to all the living creatures - both flora and fauna - that inhabit J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth and Undying Lands.
Characters from Tolkien is scholarly, definitive and enchantingly beautiful.
Included are a map, a chronology of all the ages, and a special index referring readers back to Tolkien's original works.
Includes:
A map of Middle-earth and the Undying Lands, A Chronology of Middle-earth and the Undying Lands, A Chronolgy of the Kingdoms on Middle-earth in the Ages of the Sun, A Bestiary of the beasts, monsters, races, deities and flora, Genealogies of the races and kingdoms of elves and men, and an index of principal sources.
