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In a letter written in 1964 my father said:

There are, of course, quite a lot of links between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings that are
not clearly set out. They were mostly written or sketched out, but cut out to lighten the boat: such as
Gandalf's exploratory journeys, his relations with Aragorn and Gondor; all the movements of Gollum,
until he took refuge in Moria, and so on. I actually wrote in full an account of what really happened
before Gandalf's visit to Bilbo and the subsequent "Unexpected Party," as seen by Gandalf himself. It
was to have come in I during a looking-back conversation in Minas Tirith; but it had to go, and is only
represented in brief in Appendix A pp. 374-76, though the difficulties that Gandalf had with Thorin are
omitted.

This account of Gandalf's is given here. The complex textual situation is described in the Appendix to the
narrative, where I have given substantial extracts from an earlier version.

IV
The Hunt for the Ring
There is much writing bearing on the events of the year 3018 of the Third Age, which are otherwise known from
the Tale of Years and the reports of Gandalf and others to the Council of Elrond; and these writings are clearly those
referred to as "sketched out" in the letter just cited. I have given them the title "The Hunt for the Ring." The manu-
scripts themselves, in great though hardly exceptional confusion, are sufficiently described on p. 357; but the question
of their date (for I believe them all, and also those of "Concerning Gandalf, Saruman, and the Shire," given as the third
element in this section, to derive from the same time) may be mentioned here. They were written after the publication
of The Lord of the Rings, for there are references to the pagination of the printed text; but they differ in the dates they
give for certain events from those in the Tale of Years in Appendix B. The explanation is clearly that they were written
after the publication of the first volume but before that of the third, containing the Appendices.

V
 The Battle of the fords of Isen
This, together with the account of the military organisation of the Rohirrim and the history of Isengard given in
an Appendix to the text, belongs with other late pieces of severe historical analysis; it presented relatively little
difficulty of a textual kind, and is only unfinished in the most obvious sense.


PART FOUR

I
The Dr├║edain
Towards the end of his life my father revealed a good deal more about the Wild Men of the Dr├║adan Forest in
An├│rien and the statues of the P├║kel-men on the road up to Dunharrow. The account given here, telling of the Dr├║edain
in Beleriand in the First Age, and containing the story of "The Faithful Stone," is drawn from a long, discursive, and
unfinished essay concerned primarily with the interrelations of the languages of Middle-earth. As will be seen, the
Dr├║edain were to be drawn back into the history of the earlier Ages; but of this there is necessarily no trace in the
published Silmarillion.

II
The Istari
It was proposed soon after the acceptance of The Lord of the Rings for publication that there should be an index
at the end of the third volume, and it seems that my father began to work on it in the summer of 1954, after the first two
volumes had gone to press. He wrote of the matter in a letter of 1956: "An index of names was to be produced, which
by etymological interpretation would provide quite a large Elvish vocabulary. ... I worked at it for months, and indexed