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Alqualondë

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'''Alqualondë''', the '''Swanhaven''', was the chief city of the [[Falmari]] on the shores of [[Valinor]]. The city is said to be north and east of [[Tirion]] between the [[Calacirya]] and [[Araman]] in northern [[Eldamar]].

==Description==
The city was built in a natural harbour made of rock, and was also walled. Its entrance was a natural arch. Other than the great harbours, it also housed the mansions of Olwë. The city was covered with the pearls the Elves had found in the sea and jewels which they obtained from the [[Noldor]], and it was lit with many lamps. The famed [[swanships]] with golden beaks and eyes of jet were moored there.<ref>{{S|Eldamar}}</ref>

==History==
[[File:Ted Nasmith - The Kinslaying of Alqualondë.jpg|thumb|left|''The Kinslaying of Alqualondë'' by [[Ted Nasmith]]]]
In the [[Year of the Trees 1162]], the [[Falmari]] who abandoned [[Tol Eressëa]] began to build Alqualondë with the help of the [[Noldor]].<ref>{{AA}}</ref> Its lord was [[Olwë]].

When [[Fëanor]] rebelled against the will of the [[Valar]], he went to the shores of Aman, seeking for a way to reach [[Middle-earth]]. He demanded the use of the Telerin ships, however, the Teleri refused and resisted when Fëanor ordered the [[Noldor]] to take them by force. A battle broke out, the [[First Kinslaying]], in which many Teleri were slain, for they were armed with mere hunting bows against the fully armed Noldor. They also attempted to block the harbor. The battle was joined by the hosts of [[Fingon]] and [[Fingolfin]], many of whom thought that the Teleri had attacked the Noldor.

In the closing years of the [[First Age]], Alqualondë was visited by [[Eärendil]] and [[Elwing]] who had reached Valinor. Elwing stayed a little there and told stories to the [[Teleri]] about the griefs of [[Beleriand]].<ref>{{S|Earendil}}</ref>

==Etymology==
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''Alqualondë'' means "Swanhaven" or "Haven of the Swans"<ref>{{S|Index}}</ref> in [[Quenya]], from ''[[alqua]]'' ("swan") + ''[[londë]]'' ("harbor, haven").<ref>{{S|Appendix}}, entries ''alqua'', ''londë''</ref> In ''[[The Book of Lost Tales Part One]]'' the haven's name has the form '''''Alqualuntë'''''.<ref>{{LT1|Appendix}}, entry "Alqualuntë"</ref>
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I'd like to briefly introduce myself: My name here is Adan, but in the "outside" world, I'm known as Martin. Some of you may already know me as [[User:Hurin Thalion|Hurin]], as I've been active in this fascinating community since September 2008. I've been particularly involved with the German counterpart [http://ardapedia.herr-der-ringe-film.de/index.php?title=Hauptseite Ardapedia]. I've decided to continue under a new username. I look forward to sharing my experiences, gaining new insights, and continuing to delve into the depths of Middle-earth with all of you.
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The Shaping of Middle-earth

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{{book
|title=The Shaping of Middle-earth
|image=[[File:Shaping of Middle-earth 1986.jpeg|275px]]
|author=[[J.R.R. Tolkien]]
|editor=[[Christopher Tolkien]]
|publisherUK=[[George Allen and Unwin]]
|publisherUS=[[Houghton Mifflin]]
|dateUK=[[21 August]] [[1986]]
|dateUS=[[14 November]] 1986
|format=Hardcover; paperback
|pages=380
|isbn=0048232793
| precededby=[[The Lays of Beleriand]] (1985)
| followedby=[[The Lost Road and Other Writings]] (1987)
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'''''The Shaping of Middle-earth''''', published in [[1986]], is the fourth volume of [[Christopher Tolkien]]'s 12-volume book series, ''[[The History of Middle-earth]]'', in which he analyzes the unpublished manuscripts of [[J.R.R. Tolkien]].

==Overview==
In ''The Shaping of Middle-earth'' the gradual transition from the "primitive" [[legendarium|legendaria]] of ''[[The Book of Lost Tales]]'' to what would become ''[[The Silmarillion]]'' is described, and it contains a text which could be seen as the first "Silmarillion" - the "Sketch of the Mythology".

Three other parts are the ''Ambarkanta'' or "Shape of the World", a collection of maps and diagrams of the world described by Tolkien; and the Annals of [[Valinor]] and [[Beleriand]], chronological works which started out as timelines but gradually turned into full narratives.

==Contents==
* Preface

* I. "[[Prose Fragments Following the Lost Tales]]" — brief, uncompleted texts which continue on from ''The Book of Lost Tales''

* II. "[[The Earliest 'Silmarillion']]" — or, the "Sketch of the Mythology", this is the start of the ''Silmarillion'' proper

* III. "[[The Quenta]]" — ''Quenta Noldorinwa'', a further developed version of that which appears in the "Sketch"
** Appendix 1: Ælfwine's translation of the ''Quenta'' into Old English
** Appendix 2: [[The Horns of Ylmir]]

* IV. "[[The First 'Silmarillion' Map]]" — a reproduction of the first map of Beleriand

* V. "[[The Ambarkanta]]" — cosmological essays, maps, and diagrams

* VI. "[[The Earliest Annals of Valinor|The Earliest ''Annals of Valinor'']]"
** Appendix: Ælfwine's translation of the ''Annals of Valinor'' into Old English

* VII. "[[The Earliest Annals of Beleriand|The Earliest ''Annals of Beleriand'']]"
** Second version of the earliest ''Annals''
** Appendix: Ælfwine's translation of the ''Annals of Beleriand'' into Old English

* Index

The ''Annals of Valinor'' and ''Annals of Beleriand'' show the earliest outline of the chronology of the [[First Age]] as envisaged in the early 1930s. The next volume in the series, ''[[The Lost Road and Other Writings]]'' (1987), outlined revisions to both texts made c. 1937 as "The Later Annals of Valinor" and "The Later Annals of Beleriand".

==Inscriptions==
There is an inscription in the [[Tengwar]] characters in the first pages of every ''History of Middle-earth'' volume, written by Christopher Tolkien and describing the contents of the book. The inscription in Book IV reads:

:"''Herein are the Quenta Noldorinwa, the History of the Gnomes, the Ambarkanta or Shape of the World by [[Rúmil]], the Annals of Valinor, and the Annals of Beleriand by [[Pengolod]], the Wise of Gondolin with maps of the world in the Elder Days and translations made by [[Ælfwine|Ælfwine the Mariner]] of England into the tongue of his own land.''"

==From the publisher==
{{blockquote|The fourth volume that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of Tolkien’s epic tale of war, The Silmarillion.<br>
In this book, the shaping of the chronological and geographical structure of the legends of Middle-earth and Valinor is spread before us.<br>
We are introduced to the hitherto unknown [[Ambarkanta]] or 'Shape of the World', the only account ever given of the nature of the imagined [[Eä|Universe]], accompanied by maps and diagrams of the world before and after the cataclysms of The War of the Gods and the [[Downfall of Númenor]]. The first map of [[Beleriand]] is also reproduced and discussed.<br>
In [[The Earliest Annals of Valinor|The Annals of Valinor]] and [[The Earliest Annals of Beleriand|The Annals of Beleriand]] we are shown how the chronology of the [[First Age]] was moulded; and the tale is told of [[Ælfwine]], the Englishman who voyaged into the [[Aman|True West]] and came to [[Tol Eressëa]], the Lonely Isle, where he learned the ancient history of [[Elves]] and [[Men]].<br>
Also included are the original 'The Silmarillion' of 1926, and the Quenta Noldorinwa of 1930 - the only version of the myths and legends of the First Age that J.R.R. Tolkien completed to their end.}}

==Publication history and gallery==
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|File:Shaping of Middle-earth 2010.png ‎|2010 hardcover
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*[[George Allen & Unwin]] hardcover ([[1986]]), pp. 380. ISBN 0048232793
*[[Unwin Paperbacks]] paperback ([[1988]]), ISBN 0044401507 (cover art by [[Roger Garland]])
*[[Unwin Paperbacks]] paperback ([[1989]]), ISBN 0261102184 (cover art by [[John Howe]])
*[[HarperCollins]] paperback ([[2002]]), ISBN 0261102184
*[[HarperCollins]] hardcover ([[2010]]), ISBN 0007365284

==External links==
[http://www.tolkienbooks.net/php/home-contents.php#iv A content guide for this volume] at Tolkienbooks.net

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The Return of the Shadow

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{{book
|title=The Return of the Shadow
|image=[[Image:Return of the Shadow 1988.png|275px]]
| author=[[J.R.R. Tolkien]]
| editor=[[Christopher Tolkien]]
| publisherUK=[[Unwin Hyman]]
| publisherUS=[[Houghton Mifflin]]
| dateUK=[[25 August]] [[1988]]
| dateUS=[[5 January]] [[1989]]
|format=Hardcover; paperback
|pages=480
|isbn=0044401620
| precededby=[[The Lost Road and Other Writings]] (1987)
| followedby=[[The Treason of Isengard]] (1989)
}}
'''''The Return of the Shadow''''', published in [[1988]], is the sixth volume of [[Christopher Tolkien]]'s 12-volume book series, ''[[The History of Middle-earth]]'', in which he analyzes the unpublished manuscripts of [[J.R.R. Tolkien]].

It is also the first volume of ''[[The History of The Lord of the Rings]]'', which documents the writing process of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''.

This book covers a larger part of the content of ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]''. It encompasses ''TLotR's'' three initial stages of composition or, as Christopher Tolkien calls them, "phases", including what Tolkien later called "the crucial chapter" which sets up the central plot, "''[[The Shadow of the Past]]''"<ref>{{HM|A}}J.R.R. Tolkien, ''The Lord of the Rings'', 2nd edition, "Foreword"</ref>. It finishes with the [[Fellowship of the Ring]] entering the [[Moria|Mines of Moria]].

The title ''The Return of the Shadow'' was a discarded title for ''The Fellowship of the Ring''. Tolkien also conceived titles for each of the six Books of ''TLotR'', which he later discarded. Some of these were used as titles for the following volumes.

==Contents==
* Foreword

* '''The First Phase'''
** I. "[[A Long-expected Party (chapter in The Return of the Shadow)|A Long-expected Party]]"
** II. "[[From Hobbiton to the Woody End]]"
** III. "[[Of Gollum and the Ring]]"
** IV. "[[To Maggot's Farm and Buckland]]"
** V. "[[The Old Forest and the Withywindle]]"
** VI. "[[Tom Bombadil (chapter)|Tom Bombadil]]"
** VII. "[[The Barrow-wight]]"
** VII. "[[Arrival at Bree]]"
** IX. "[[Trotter and the Journey to Weathertop]]"
** X. "[[The Attack on Weathertop]]"
** XI. "[[From Weathertop to the Ford]]"
** XII. "[[At Rivendell]]"
** XIII. "[[Queries and Alterations]]"

* '''The Second Phase'''
** XIV. "[[Return to Hobbiton]]"
** XV. "Ancient History"
** XVI. "Delays Are Dangerous"
** XVII. "A Short Cut to Mushrooms"
** XVIII. "Again from Buckland to the Withywindle"

* '''The Third Phase'''
** XIX. "The Journey to Bree"
** XX. "At the Sign of the Prancing Pony"
** XXI. "To Weathertop and Rivendell"
** XXII. "New Uncertainties and New Projections"

* '''The Story Continued'''
** XXIII. "In the House of Elrond"
** XXIV. "The Ring Goes South"
** XXV. "The Mines of Moria"

* Index

==Inscriptions==
There is an inscription in the [[Tengwar]] characters in the first pages of every ''History of Middle-earth'' volume, written by Christopher Tolkien and describing the contents of the book. The inscription in Book VI reads:

:"''In the Return of the Shadow are traced the first forms of the story of the Lord of the Rings; herein the journey of the Hobbit who bore the Great Ring, at first named Bingo but afterwards Frodo, is followed from Hobbiton in the Shire through the Old Forest to Weathertop and Rivendel, and ends in this volume before the [[Balin's Tomb|Tomb of Balin]], the Dwarf-lord of Moria.''"

==From the Publisher==
{{blockquote|The first part of The History of The Lord of the Rings, an enthralling account of the writing of the Book of the Century which contains many additional scenes and includes the unpublished Epilogue in its entirety.<br>
The Return of the Shadow is the story of the first part of the history of the creation of The Lord of the Rings, a fascinating study of Tolkien’s great masterpiece, from its inception to the end of the first volume, [[The Fellowship of the Ring]].<br>
In The Return of the Shadow (the abandoned title of the first volume of The Lord of the Rings) we see how Bilbo’s magic ring evolved into the supremely dangerous [[One Ring|Ruling Ring]] of the [[Sauron|Dark Lord]]; and the precise, and astonishingly unforeseen, moment when a [[Nazgûl|Black Rider]] first rode in to [[the Shire]]. The character of the hobbit called [[Trotter]] (afterwards [[Strider]] or [[Aragorn]]) is developed, and Frodo’s companions undergo many changes of name and personality.<br>
The book comes complete with reproductions of the first maps and facsimile pages from the earliest manuscripts.}}

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|File:Return of the Shadow 1994.jpeg ‎|1994 paperback
|File:The Return of the Shadow (HC2002).jpeg ‎|2002 paperback
|File:Return of the Shadow 2010.png ‎|2010 hardcover
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*[[Unwin Hyman]] hardcover ([[1988]]), pp. 480. ISBN 0044401620
*[[Unwin Paperbacks]] paperback ([[1990]]), ISBN 004440669X (cover art by [[Roger Garland]])
*[[HarperCollins]] paperback ([[1994]]), ISBN 0261102249 (cover art by [[John Howe]])
*[[HarperCollins]] paperback ([[2002]]), ISBN 0261102249
*[[HarperCollins]] hardcover ([[2010]]), ISBN 0007365306

==External links==
[http://www.tolkienbooks.net/php/home-contents.php#vi A content guide for this volume] at Tolkienbooks.net

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The Treason of Isengard

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{{book
| title=The Treason of Isengard
| image=[[File:Treason of Isengard 1989.png|275px]]
| author=[[J.R.R. Tolkien]]
| editor=[[Christopher Tolkien]]
| publisherUK=[[Unwin Hyman]]
| publisherUS=[[Houghton Mifflin]]
| dateUK=[[7 September]] [[1989]]
| dateUS=[[30 November]] 1989
| format=Hardcover; paperback
| pages=464
| isbn=0044403968
| precededby=[[The Return of the Shadow]] (1988)
| followedby=[[The War of the Ring]] (1990)
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'''''The Treason of Isengard''''', published in [[1989]], is the seventh volume of [[Christopher Tolkien]]'s 12-volume book series, ''[[The History of Middle-earth]]'', in which he analyzes the unpublished manuscripts of [[J.R.R. Tolkien]].

It is also the second volume of ''[[The History of The Lord of the Rings]]'', which documents the writing process of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''.

This book covers part of ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' and part of ''[[The Two Towers]]''. It continues to the meeting with [[Théoden]] king of [[Rohan]], and includes the invention and evolution of [[Lothlórien]] and [[Galadriel]]; plans for [[Frodo]] and [[Sam]]'s progress to [[Mordor]]; the invention and evolution of [[Treebeard]], the [[Ents]], and [[Fangorn Forest|Fangorn]]; discussions of the original map of Middle-earth at the end of the Third Age; and of the evolution of [[Cirth]] in an appendix.

The title ''The Treason of Isengard'' was the original title for Book III of ''TLotR'', eventually unused.

==Contents==
*Foreword

*I. "Gandalf's Delay"
*II. "The Fourth Phase (1): From Hobbiton to Bree"
*III. "The Fourth Phase (2): From Bree to the Ford of Rivendell"
*IV. "Of Hamilcar, Gandalf, and Saruman"
*V. "Bilbo's Song at Rivendell: ''Errantry'' and ''Eärendillinwë''"
*VI. "The Council of Elrond (1)"
*VII. "The Council of Elrond (2)"
*VIII. "The Ring Goes South"
*IX. "The Mines of Moria (1): The Lord of Moria"
*X. "The Mines of Moria (2): The Bridge"
*XI. "The Story Foreseen from Moria"
*XII. "Lothlórien"
*XIII. "Galadriel"
*XIV. "Farewell to Lórien"
*XV. "The First Map of The Lord of the Rings"
*XVI. "The Story Foreseen from Lórien"
*XVII. "The Great River"
*XVIII. "The Breaking of the Fellowship"
*XIX. "The Departure of Boromir"
*XX. "The Riders of Rohan"
*XXI. "The Uruk-hai"
*XXII. "Treebeard"
*XXIII. "Notes on Various Topics"
*XXIV. "The White Rider"
*XXV. "The Story Foreseen from Fangorn"
*XXVI. "The King of the Golden Hall"

*Appendix on Runes

* Index

==Inscriptions==
There is an inscription in the [[Tengwar]] characters in the first pages of every ''History of Middle-earth'' volume, written by Christopher Tolkien and describing the contents of the book. The inscription in Book VII reads:

:"''In The Treason of Isengard the story of the Fellowship of the Ring is traced from Rivendell through Moria and the Land of Lothlórien to the time of its ending at Salembel beside Anduin the Great river, then is told of the return of Gandalf Mithrandir, of the meeting of the hobbits with Fangorn, and of the war upon the Riders of Rohan by the traitor Saruman.''"

==From the publisher==
{{blockquote|The second part of The History of The Lord of the Rings, an enthralling account of the writing of the Book of the Century which contains many additional scenes and includes the unpublished Epilogue in its entirety.<br>
The Treason of Isengard continues the account of the creation of ''The Lord of the Rings'' started in the earlier volume, ''[[The Return of the Shadow]]''. It traces the great expansion of the tale into new lands and new peoples south and east of the Misty Mountains: the emergence of Lothlórien, of Ents, of the [[Rohirrim|Riders of Rohan]], and of [[Saruman]] the White in the fortress of [[Isengard]].<br>
In brief outlines and penciled drafts dashed down on scraps of paper are seen the first entry of Galadriel, the earliest ideas of the history of [[Gondor]], and the original meeting of [[Aragorn]] and [[Éowyn]], its significance destined to be wholly transformed.<br>
The book also contains a full account of the original map which was to be the basis of the emerging geography of Middle-earth.}}

==Publication history and gallery==
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|File:The Treason of Isengard (HC2002).jpeg|2002 paperback
|File:The Treason of Isengard (HC2010).png|2010 hardcover
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*[[Unwin Hyman]] hardcover ([[1989]]), pp. 464. ISBN 0044403968
*[[HarperCollins]] paperback ([[1993]]), ISBN 0261102206 (cover art by [[Roger Garland]])
**1993 edition 2nd impression (1993) paperback (cover art by [[John Howe]])
*[[HarperCollins]] paperback ([[2002]]), ISBN 0261102206
*[[HarperCollins]] hardcover ([[2010]]), ISBN 0007365314

==External links==
[http://www.tolkienbooks.net/php/home-contents.php#vii A content guide for this volume] at Tolkienbooks.net

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The War of the Ring

2023-12-27T06:09:36Z

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{{book
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| image=[[Image:War of the Ring 1990.png|275px]]
| author=[[J.R.R. Tolkien]]
| editor=[[Christopher Tolkien]]
| publisherUK=[[Unwin Hyman]]
| publisherUS=[[Houghton Mifflin]]
| dateUK=[[23 August]] [[1990]]
| dateUS=[[14 November]] 1990
| format=Hardcover; paperback
| pages=496
| isbn=0044406851
| precededby=[[The Treason of Isengard]] (1989)
| followedby=[[Sauron Defeated]] (1992)
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'''''The War of the Ring''''', published in [[1990]], is the eighth volume of [[Christopher Tolkien]]'s 12-volume book series, ''[[The History of Middle-earth]]'', in which he analyzes the unpublished manuscripts of [[J.R.R. Tolkien]].

It is also the third volume of ''[[The History of The Lord of the Rings]]'', which documents the writing process of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''.

This book covers part of ''[[The Two Towers]]'' and part of ''[[The Return of the King]]''. Following the development of the previous books, the story continues to the opening of the [[Black Gate]].

The title ''The War of the Ring'' was the original title for Book 5 of ''TLotR'', later discarded by Tolkien.

==Contents==
*Foreword

* '''Part One: The Fall of Saruman'''
** I. "The Destruction of Isengard"
** II. "Helm's Deep"
** III. "The Road to Isengard"
** IV. "Flotsam and Jetsam"
** V. "The Voice of Saruman"
** VI. "The Palantír"

* '''Part Two: The Ring Goes East'''
** I. "The Taming of Sméagol"
** II. "The Passage of the Marshes"
** III. "The Black Gate is Closed"
** IV. "Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit"
** V. "Faramir"
** VI. "The Forbidden Pool"
** VII. "Journey to the Cross-Roads"
** VIII. "Kirith Ungol"

* '''Part Three: Minas Tirith'''
** I. "Addendum to 'The Treason of Isengard'"
** II. "Book Five Begun and Abandoned"
** III. "Minas Tirith"
** IV. "Many Roads Lead Eastward (1)"
** V. "Many Roads lead Eastward (2)"
** VI. "The Siege of Gondor"
** VII. "The Ride of the Rohirrim"
** VIII. "The Story Foreseen from Forannest"
** IX. "The Battle of the Pelennor Fields"
** X. "The Pyre of Denethor"
** XI. "The Houses of Healing"
** XII. "The Last Debate"
** XIII. "The Black Gate Opens"
** XIV. "The Second Map"

* Index

==Inscriptions==
There is an inscription in the [[Tengwar]] characters in the first pages of every ''History of Middle-earth'' volume, written by Christopher Tolkien and describing the contents of the book. The inscription in Book VIII reads:

:"''In the War of the Ring is traced the story of the history at Helm's Deep and the drowning of Isengard by the Ents, then is told of the journey of Frodo with Samwise and Gollum to the Morannon, of the meeting with Faramir and the stairs of Cirith Ungol, of the Battle of the [[Pelennor Fields]], and of the coming of Aragorn in the [[Corsairs of Umbar|fleet of Umbar]].''"

==From the Publisher==
{{blockquote|The third part of The History of The Lord of the Rings, an enthralling account of the writing of the Book of the Century which contains many additional scenes and includes the unpublished Epilogue in its entirety.<br>
The War of the Ring takes up the story of The Lord of the Rings with the [[Battle of Helm's Deep]] and the drowning of [[Isengard]] by the [[Ents]], continues with the journey of Frodo, Sam and Gollum to the Pass of [[Cirith Ungol]], describes the war in Gondor, and ends with the parley between Gandalf and the ambassador of the Dark Lord before the Black Gate of Mordor.<br>

The book is illustrated with plans and drawings of the changing conceptions of [[Orthanc]], [[Dunharrow]], [[Minas Tirith]], and the tunnels of [[Shelob's Lair]].}}

==Publication history and gallery==
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|File:War of the Ring 1997.jpeg |1997 paperback
|File:The War of the Ring (HC2002).jpeg |2002 paperback
|File:War of the Ring 2010.png |2010 hardcover
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*[[Unwin Hyman]] hardcover ([[1990]]), pp. 496. ISBN 0044406851
*[[HarperCollins]] paperback ([[1992]]), ISBN 0261102230 (cover art by [[Roger Garland]])
*[[HarperCollins]] paperback ([[1997]]), ISBN 0261102230 (cover art by [[John Howe]])
*[[HarperCollins]] paperback ([[2002]]), ISBN 0261102230
*[[HarperCollins]] hardcover ([[2010]]), ISBN 0007365322

==External links==
[http://www.tolkienbooks.net/php/home-contents.php#viii A content guide for this volume] at Tolkienbooks.net

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Sauron Defeated

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{{book
|title=Sauron Defeated
|image=[[File:Sauron Defeated 1992.png|275px]]
| author=[[J.R.R. Tolkien]]
| editor=[[Christopher Tolkien]]
| publisherUK=[[HarperCollins]]
| publisherUS=[[Houghton Mifflin]]
| dateUK=[[6 January]] [[1992]]
| dateUS=[[27 October]] 1992
|format=Hardcover; paperback
|pages=482
| isbn=0261102400
| precededby=[[The War of the Ring]] (1990)
| followedby=[[Morgoth's Ring]] (1993)
}}
'''''Sauron Defeated''''', published in [[1992]], is the ninth volume of [[Christopher Tolkien]]'s 12-volume book series, ''[[The History of Middle-earth]]'', in which he analyzes the unpublished manuscripts of [[J.R.R. Tolkien]].

A shortened version of it, under the title '''''[[The End of the Third Age]]''''', forms the fourth volume of ''[[The History of The Lord of the Rings]]'', which documents the writing process of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''.

This volume finishes the story and features the rejected ''Epilogue'', in which [[Sam]] answers his children's questions. It also includes ''[[The Notion Club Papers]]'' (a time-travel story related to [[Númenor]]), a draft of the ''[[Drowning of Anadûnê]]'', and the only extant account of Tolkien's fictional language [[Adûnaic]].

The title ''The End of the Third Age'' was the original title for Book 6 of ''TLotR'', later discarded by Tolkien.

==Contents==
* Foreword

* '''Part One: The End of the Third Age'''
** I. "The Story of Frodo and Sam in Mordor"
** II. "The Tower of Kirith Ungol"
** III. "The Land of Shadow"
** IV. "Mount Doom"
** V. "The Field of Kormallen"
** VI. "The Steward and the King"
** VII. "Many Partings"
** VIII. "Homeward Bound"
** IX. "The Scouring of the Shire"
** X. "The Grey Havens"
** XI. "The Epilogue"
** Appendix: Drawings of Orthanc and Dunharrow

* '''Part Two: [[The Notion Club Papers]]'''
** Introduction
** Foreword and List of Members
** [[The Notion Club Papers Part One|''The Notion Club Papers'' Part One]]
** [[The Notion Club Papers Part Two|''The Notion Club Papers'' Part Two]]
** Major Divergences in Earlier Versions of Part Two
*** (i) The earlier versions of Night 66
*** (ii) The original version of Lowdham's 'Fragments'
*** (iii) The earlier versions of Lowdham's 'Fragments' in Adunaic
*** (iv) Earlier versions of Edwin Lowdham's Old English text
*** (v) The page preserved from Edwin Lowdham's manuscript written in Númenórean script

* '''Part Three: [[The Drowning of Anadûnê]]'''
** (i) The third version of ''The Fall of Númenor''
** (ii) The original text of ''The Drowning of Anadûnê''
** (iii) The second text of ''The Drowning of Anadûnê''
** (iv) The final form of ''The Drowning of Anadûnê''
** (v) The theory of the work
** (vi) Lowdham's Report on the Adûnaic Language

* Index

==Inscriptions==
There is an inscription in the [[Tengwar]] characters in the first pages of every ''History of Middle-earth'' volume, written by Christopher Tolkien and describing the contents of the book. The inscription in Book IX reads:

:"''In this book is traced first the story of the destruction of the One Ring and the Downfall of Sauron at the End of the Third Age. Then follows an account of the intrusion of the Cataclysm of the West into the deliberations of certain scholars of Oxford and the Fall of Sauron named [[Zigûr]] in the Drowning of Anadûne.''"

==From the publisher==
{{blockquote|The final part of The History of The Lord of the Rings, an enthralling account of the writing of the Book of the Century which contains many additional scenes and includes the unpublished Epilogue in its entirety.<br>
In the first section of Sauron Defeated Christopher Tolkien completes his fascinating study 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 section 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.<br>
The second section is an edition of The Notion Club Papers. These mysterious papers, discovered in the early years of the twenty-first century, report the discussions of an Oxford club in the years 1986-7, in which after a number of topics, the centre of interest turns to the legend of Atlantis, the strange communications received by other members of the club from the past, and the violent irruption of the legend into the North-west of Europe.}}

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|File:Sauron Defeated (HC2002).jpeg|2002 paperback
|File:Sauron Defeated (HC2010).jpg|2010 hardcover
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*[[HarperCollins]] hardcover ([[1992]]), pp. 482. ISBN 0261102400
*[[HarperCollins]] paperback ([[1993]]), ISBN 0261103059 (cover art by [[Roger Garland]])
**1993 edition 2nd impression (1993) paperback (cover art by [[John Howe]])
*[[HarperCollins]] paperback ([[2002]]), ISBN 0261103059
*[[HarperCollins]] hardcover ([[2010]]), ISBN 0007365330

==External links==
* [http://www.tolkienbooks.net/php/home-contents.php#ix A content guide for this volume] at Tolkienbooks.net

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The War of the Jewels

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{{book
| title=The War of the Jewels
| image=[[File:The War of the Jewels (UK).jpg|275px]]
| author=[[J.R.R. Tolkien]]
| editor=[[Christopher Tolkien]]
| publisherUK=[[HarperCollins]]
| publisherUS=[[Houghton Mifflin]]
| dateUK=[[20 October]] [[1994]]
| dateUS=[[6 December]] 1994
| format=Hardback; paperback
| pages=470
| isbn=0261103148
| precededby=[[Morgoth's Ring]] (1993)
| followedby=[[The Peoples of Middle-earth]] (1996)
}}
'''''The War of the Jewels''''', published in [[1994]], is the eleventh volume of [[Christopher Tolkien]]'s 12-volume book series, ''[[The History of Middle-earth]]'', in which he analyzes the unpublished manuscripts of [[J.R.R. Tolkien]].

Continuing from the previous ''[[Morgoth's Ring]]'', this volume provides detailed writings and editorial commentary pertaining to Tolkien's cosmology that eventually would become the published ''[[The Silmarillion]]''.

==Contents==
* Foreword

* '''Part One: [[The Grey Annals]]'''

* '''Part Two: The Later ''Quenta Silmarillion''''' (continued from ''Morgoth's Ring'')
** IX. "Of Men"
** X. "Of the Siege of Angband"
** XI. "Of Beleriand and Its Realms"
** XII. "Of Turgon and the Building of Gondolin"
** XIII. "Concerning the Dwarves"
** XIV. "Of the Coming of Men into the West"
** XV. "Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin"
** "The Last Chapters"

* '''Part Three: The Wanderings of Húrin and Other Writings'''
** I. "[[The Wanderings of Húrin]]"
** II. "[[Ælfwine and Dírhaval]]"
** III. "[[Maeglin (chapter)|Maeglin]]"
** IV. "Of the Ents and the Eagles"
** V. "[[The Tale of Years (The War of the Jewels)|The Tale of Years]]"

* '''Part Four: [[Quendi and Eldar]]'''

* Index

==Inscriptions==
There is an inscription in the [[Tengwar]] characters in the first pages of every ''History of Middle-earth'' volume, written by Christopher Tolkien and describing the contents of the book. The inscription in Book XI reads:

:"''In this book are recorded the last writings of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien concerning the [[Battles of Beleriand|wars of Beleriand]], here also is told the story of how Húrin Thali[o]n brought ruin to the Men of Brethil, with much else concerning the Edain and Dwarves and the names of many peoples in the [[Elvish|speech of the Elves]].''"

==From the publisher==
{{blockquote|The second of two companion volumes which documents the later writing of The Silmarillion, Tolkien’s epic tale of war.<br>
In The War of the Jewels Christopher Tolkien takes up his account of the later history of The Silmarillion from the point where it was left in Morgoth’s Ring. The story now returns to Middle-earth, and the ruinous conflict of the High Elves and the Men who were their allies with the power of the Dark Lord. With the publication in this book of all J.R.R. Tolkien’s later narrative writing concerned with the last centuries of the First Age, the long history of The Silmarillion, from its beginning in The Book of Lost Tales, is completed; and the enigmatic state of the work at his death can be understood.<br>
This book contains the full text of [[The Grey Annals]], the primary record of The War of the Jewels, and a major story of Middle-earth now published for the first time: the tale of the disaster that overtook the forest people of Brethil when Hurin the Steadfast came among them after his release from long years of captivity in Angband, the fortress of Morgoth.}}

==Publication history and gallery==
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*[[HarperCollins]] hardcover ([[1994]]), pp. 470. ISBN 0261103148
*[[HarperCollins]] paperback ([[1995]]), ISBN 0261103245 (cover art by [[John Howe]])
*[[HarperCollins]] paperback ([[2002]]), ISBN 0261103245
*[[HarperCollins]] hardcover ([[2010]]), ISBN 0007365357

==External links==
* [http://www.tolkienbooks.net/php/home-contents.php#xi A content guide for this volume] at Tolkienbooks.net

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Great West Road

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The '''Great West Road'''<ref name=RKMap>{{RK|Map}}, label "Great West Road" above the road in the Eastfold</ref>, also referred to as the '''West Road'''<ref>{{RK|Debate}}, p. 882</ref><ref name=Index>{{UT|Index}}, entry ''Roads'' (2) (i)</ref> or the '''horse-road'''<ref name=Isen>{{UT|Isen}}, tenth paragraph</ref><ref name=Index/> was the name of the portion of the '''[[Great Road]]'''<ref>{{UT|Eorl}}</ref> between the eastern shore of the [[Fords of Isen]]<ref name=Index/> and the [[Forannest|north gate]] of the [[Rammas Echor]]<ref name=UI>{{HM|UI}}, entry ''North-way'', p. 635</ref><ref name=Gate>{{HM|UI}}, entry ''north gate'', p. 559</ref> north of of [[Minas Tirith]].

==Course==
The Great West Road ran from the eastern shore of the Fords of Isen straight east for approximately two miles, then bent sharply to the south-east<ref name=Isen/> and ran across [[Calenardhon]]/[[Rohan]] roughly parallel to the northern side of the [[White Mountains]] through the [[Westfold]] where it met the [[Deeping-road]] that ran north-east from [[Helm's Deep]],<ref>{{FR|Map}}</ref> continued through the [[Folde]] on to [[Edoras]] , then through the [[Eastfold]] across the [[Mering Stream]] into [[Anórien]] where it ran through the northern part of the [[Firienholt|Firien Wood]] and along the northern edge of [[Drúadan Forest]] to the northern side of [[Amon Dîn]] where it turned further to the south-east until it reached the north gate of the Rammas Echor in the north of Minas Tirith<ref name=RKMap/>.

The road from the Gate of Minas Tirith to the north gate of the Rammas Echor to join the Great West Road<ref name=UI/><ref name=Gate/> was called the '''North-way'''<ref>{{RK|Steward}}, pp. 969 and 972</ref>.

The part of the Great Road that ran from the western shore of the Fords of Isen to [[Fornost Erain]] was called the '''North Road''' and later called the '''[[Greenway]]''' by the [[Bree-folk]].<ref>{{HM|UI}}, entry ''Greenway'', "originally running from Isengard to Fornost", p. 31</ref><ref>{{FR|Sign}}, p. 150</ref>

==See also==
*[[Greenway]]
*[[North-South Road]]

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