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In the first part of Sauron Defeated Christopher Tolkien
completes his account of the writing of The Lord of the
Rings: beginning with Sam's rescue of Frodo from the
Tower of Cirith Ungol, and giving a very different account
of the Scouring of the Shire, this part ends with versions
of the hitherto unpublished Epilogue, in which, years after
the departure of Bilbo and Frodo from the Grey Havens,
Sam attempts to answer his children's questions.
The second part is an edition of the previously unpublished
Notion Club Papers. This was written by J.R.R. Tolkien
in the interval between The Tv o Towers and The Return
of the King. These mysterious Papers, discovered in the
early years of the twenty-first century, report the discussions
of a literary club in Oxford in the years 1986-7, in which,
after an account by one of the members of the possibilities
of travel in space and time through the medium of 'true
dream', the centre of interest turns to the legend of Atlantis,
the strange communications received by other memhers of
the club out of the remote past, and the violent irruption
of the legend into the North-west of Europe. Closely
associated with the Papers is a new version of the
Numenorean legend, The Drowning of Anadune, which
constitutes the third part of the book. At this time the
language of the Men of the West, Adunaic, was first devised,
and the book concludes with an elaborate though unfinished
account of its structure provided by Arundel Lowdham, a
member of the Notion Club, who learned it in his dreams.

CONTENTS.

Foreword. page xi.

PART ONE: THE END OF THE THIRD AGE.

I The Story of Frodo and Sam in Mordor 3
II The Tower of Kirith Ungol 18
III The Land of Shadow 31
IV Mount Doom 37
V The Field of Kormallen 44
VI The Steward and the King 54
VII Many Partings 61
VIII Homeward Bound 75
IX The Scouring of the Shire 79
X The Grey Havens 108
XI The Epilogue 114
Appendix: Drawings of Orthanc and Dunharrow 136

PAKT TWO: THE NOTION CLUB PAPERS.

Introduction 145