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When J.R.R. Tolkien laid aside The Silmarillion in 1937
the extension of the original 'mythology' into later Ages
of the world had scarcely emerged, if it had emerged at
all; as he himself recorded, he knew nothing of the
peoples and history of these Ages until he 'met them on
the way': 'The Mines of Moria had been a mere name;
and of Lothlorien no word had reached my mortal ears
until I came there. Fangorn Forest was an unforeseen
adventure. I had never heard of the House of Eorl nor of
the Stewards of Gondor. Saruman had never been
revealed to me.'
It was in the Appendices to The Lord of the Rings
that there emerged a comprehensive historical structure
and chronology of the Second and Third Ages, embracing
all the diverse strands that came together in the War of
the Ring. The difficulty bordering on despair that he
found in providing these Appendices, leading to delay in
the publication of The Return of the King, is well
known; but in The Peoples of Middle-earth Christopher
Tolkien shows that the work had in fact been achieved
years before, in essays and records differing greatly
from the published forms. In these early texts is seen the
evolution of the chronology of the later Ages, the
Calendars, the Hobbit genealogies (with those of families
that were printed but not published), and the Westron
language or Common Speech (from which many words
and names are recorded that were afterwards lost).
Following the account of the Appendices a number of
other writings by J.R.R. Tolkien are included in this
book, chiefly deriving from his last years, when new
insights and new constructions still freely arose as he
pondered the history that he had created.
This final volume of The History of Middle-earth
concludes with two soon-abandoned stories, both
unique in the setting of time or place: The New Shadow
in Gondor of the Fourth Age, and the tale of Tal-elmar,
in which the coming of the dreaded Numenorean ships
is seen through the eyes of men of Middle-earth in the
Dark Years.

J.R.R. TOLKIEN.


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