Chapter 3 The Black Gate is Closed 444
Chapter 4 Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit 453
Chapter 5 The Window on the West 464
Chapter 6 The Forbidden Pool 479
Chapter 7 Journey to the Cross-roads 487
Chapter 8 The Stairs of Cirith Ungol 494
Chapter 9 Shelob's Lair 504
Chapter 10 The Choices of Master Samwise 512
Book V 523
Chapter 1 Minas Tirith 523
Chapter 2 The Passing of the Grey Company 542
Chapter 3 The Muster of Rohan 555
Chapter 4 The Siege of Gondor 566
Chapter 5 The Ride of the Rohirrim 584
Chapter 6 The Battle of the Pelennor Fields 591
Chapter 7 The Pyre of Denethor 600
Chapter 8 The Houses of Healing 606
Chapter 9 The Last Debate 616
Chapter 10 The Black Gate Opens 624
Book VI 632
Chapter 1 The Tower of Cirith Ungol 632
Chapter 2 The Land of Shadow 644
Chapter 3 Mount Doom 654
Chapter 4 The Field of Cormallen 664
Chapter 5 The Steward and the King 670
Chapter 6 Many Partings 680
Chapter 7 Homeward Bound 690
Chapter 8 The Scouring of the Shire 695
Chapter 9 The Grey Havens 709
APPENDIX A ANNALS OF THE KINGS AND RULERS 716
I THE N?MENOREAN KINGS 717
(i) N?MENOR 717
(ii) THE REALMS IN EXILE 720
(iii) ERIADOR, ARNOR, AND THE HEIRS OF ISILDUR 722
(iv) GONDOR AND THE HEIRS OF AN?RION 726
(V) HERE FOLLOWS A PART OF THE TALE OF ARAGORN AND ARWEN 737
II THE HOUSE OF EORL 742
III DURIN'S FOLK 749
Here follows one of the last notes in the Red Book 757
Appendix B The Tale of Years (Chronology of the Westlands) 758
The Second Age 758
The Third Age 759
Appendix C Family Trees 769
Appendix D 774
SHIRE CALENDAR FOR USE IN ALL YEARS 774
THE CALENDARS 774
APPENDIX E WRITING AND SPELLING 779
I PRONUNCIATION OF WORDS AND NAMES 779
II WRITING 782
Appendix F 791
