Unfinished Tales

Unfinished Tales
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The popular paperback edition of this fascinating collection of stories, which continue the tales of The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion and contains an alternative version of The Children of Hurin.Unfinished Tales is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring, and provides those who have read The Lord of the Rings with a whole collection of background and new stories from the twentieth century’s most acclaimed popular author.The book concentrates on the realm of Middle-earth and comprises such elements as Gandalf’s lively account of how it was that he came to send the Dwarves to the celebrated party at Bag-End, the emergence of the sea-god Ulmo before the eyes of Tuor on the coast of Beleriand, and an exact description of the military organization of the Riders of Rohan.Unfinished Tales also contains the only story about the long ages of Numenor before its downfall, and all that is known about such matters as the Five Wizards, the Palantiri and the legend of Amroth. The tales were collated and edited by JRR Tolkien’s son and literary heir, Christopher Tolkien, who provides a short commentary on each story, helping the reader to fill in the gaps and put each story into the context of the rest of his father’s writings.

UNFINISHED TALES

of Númenor and Middle-earth

BY

J.R.R. TOLKIEN

Edited by Christopher Tolkien

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First published in Great Britain by George Allen & Unwin 1980

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Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring, and comprising such various elements as Gandalf’s lively account of how it was that he came to send the Dwarves to the celebrated party at Bag-End, the emergence of the sea-god Ulmo before the eyes of Tuor on the coast of Beleriand, and an exact description of the military organisation of the Riders of Rohan. The book contains the only story that survived from the long ages of Númenor before its downfall, and all that is known of such matters as the Five Wizards, the Palantíri, or the legend of Amroth.

Writing of the Appendices to The Lord of the Rings J. R. R. Tolkien said in 1955: ‘Those who enjoy the book as a “heroic romance” only, and find “unexplained vistas” part of the literary effect, will neglect the Appendices, very properly.’ Unfinished Tales is avowedly for those who, on the contrary, have not yet sufficiently explored Middle-earth, its languages, its legends, its politics, and its kings.

Christopher Tolkien has edited and introduces this collection. He has also redrawn the map for The Lord of the Rings to a larger scale and reproduced the only map of Númenor that J. R. R. Tolkien ever made.

Contents

COVER PAGE (#u7aeff786-4ea1-50a1-bebb-03af9cc9f435)

TITLE PAGE (#u4aa84c09-45e6-56c3-ab68-f71d53346773)

COPYRIGHT PAGE (#ub7105e49-1e29-5c62-b707-51eeb831277d)

NOTE (#u0d0cbe80-2ac1-56d0-a0e2-a3fe539e2efc)

INTRODUCTION (#u6a0336b7-089d-5b63-9d90-3f289c5290b1)

PART ONE: THE FIRST AGE (#u571668d8-6edb-5540-9b3c-e363e50f4dac)

I: OF TUOR AND HIS COMING TO GONDOLIN (#ub15c680a-6eb9-53fa-abc6-5d87a710b802)

II: NARN I HÎN HÚRIN (#u1fa1f365-864c-5373-938c-8bdc07989f8f)

PART TWO: THE SECOND AGE (#litres_trial_promo)

I: A DESCRIPTION OF THE ISLAND OF NÚMENOR (#litres_trial_promo)

II: ALDARION AND ERENDIS (#litres_trial_promo)

III: THE LINE OF ELROS: KINGS OF NÚMENOR (#litres_trial_promo)

IV: THE HISTORY OF GALADRIEL AND CELEBORN (#litres_trial_promo)

PART THREE: THE THIRD AGE (#litres_trial_promo)

I: THE DISASTER OF THE GLADDEN FIELDS (#litres_trial_promo)

II: CIRION AND EORL AND THE FRIENDSHIP OF GONDOR AND ROHAN (#litres_trial_promo)

III: THE QUEST OF EREBOR (#litres_trial_promo)

IV: THE HUNT FOR THE RING (#litres_trial_promo)

V: THE BATTLES OF THE FORDS OF ISEN (#litres_trial_promo)

PART FOUR (#litres_trial_promo)

I: THE DRÚEDAIN (#litres_trial_promo)

II: THE ISTARI (#litres_trial_promo)

III: THE PALANTÍRI (#litres_trial_promo)

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