From the Jacket
A comprehensive, sumptuousl illustrated reference guide by
David Day, to all the living creatures - races,
flora and fauna - that inhabitaed J.R.R Tolkien's Middle-earth and
Undying Lands.
A Tolkien Bestiary is scholarly,
definitive and enchantingly beautiful, identifying, analysing and
describing 129 separate races. Included are a map, a chronology of
all the ages, a general index and a special index referring readers
back to Tolkien's original works for the stories of the races
described in the Bestiary.