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TEACHINGS OF PENGOLOD.

XIV. Dangweth Pengolod. 395.
XV. Of Lembas. 403.

PART FOUR.

UNFINISHED TALES.

XVI. The New Shadow. 409.
XVII. Tal-Elmar. 422.

Index. 439.




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FOREWORD.

In my Foreword to Sauron Defeated I wrote that I would not
attempt a study of the Appendices to The Lord of the Rings 'at
this time'. That was an ambiguous remark, for I rather doubted
that I would ever make the attempt; but I justified its postpone-
ment, at least, on the ground that 'my father soon turned
again, when The Lord of the Rings was finished, to the myths
and legends of the Elder Days', and so devoted the following
volumes to the later history of 'The Silmarillion'. My intentions
for the twelfth book were uncertain; but after the publication of
The War of the Jewels I came to think that since (contrary to my
original conception) I had included in The History of Middle-
earth a lengthy account of the writing of The Lord of the Rings
it would be a strange omission to say nothing whatever of the
Appendices, in which the historical structure of the Second and
Third Ages, based on a firm chronology, actually emerged.
Thus I embarked on the study of the history of these works,
of which I had little precise knowledge. As with the narrative
texts of The Lord of the Rings, those of the Appendices (and of
the Prologue) became divided, in some cases in a bewildering
fashion, at the time of the sale of the papers to Marquette
University; but I received most generous help, prompt and
meticulous, from Charles Elston, the Archivist of the Memorial
Library at Marquette, which enabled me to determine the
textual relations. It was only now that I came to understand that
texts of supplementary essays to The Lord of the Rings had