Tree & Star : Tolkien and the Quest for EarendelOnce upon a time, a scribe wrote the word 'earendel' into an Anglo Saxon text. The young J. R. R. Tolkien later encountered this word. He thought it beautiful and unusual. His discovery launched him on a lifelong voyage through a world of dazzling imagination, and the word became the key source for his Legendarium and for Middle earth. My book examines the history and many variants of this mysterious word, and specifically Tolkiens initial quest for