Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-Earth

Essential reading for a complete understanding of Middle-earth, "Unfinished Tales" is reissued with new cover art. The book is a collection of shorter narratives ranging from the time of "The Silmarillion" to the end of the War of the Ring in "The Lord of the Ring". Map.

J.R.R. Tolkien (1892–1973), beloved throughout the world as the creator of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, a fellow of Pembroke College, and a fellow of Merton College until his retirement in 1959. His chief interest was the linguistic aspects of the early English written tradition, but even as he studied these classics he was creating a set of his own.

Introduction

1

(16)

PART ONE : THE FIRST AGE

Of Tuor And His Coming To Gondolin

17

(40)

Notes

51

(6)

Narn I Hin Hurin

57

(108)

The Childhood of Turin

57

(8)

The Words of Hurin and Morgoth

65

(3)

The Departure of Turin

68

(8)

Turin in Doriath

76

(9)

Turin among the Outlaws

85

(11)

Of Mim the Dwarf

96

(8)

The Return of Turin to Dorlomin

104

(5)

The Coming of Turin into Brethil

109

(3)

The Journey of Morwen and Nienor to Nargothrond

112

(9)

Nienor to Brethil

121

(4)

The Coming of Glaurung

125

(7)

The Death of Glaurung

132

(8)

The Death of Turin

140

(6)

Notes

146

(4)

Appendix

150

(15)

PART TWO : THE SECOND AGE

A Description of the Island of Numenor

165

(8)

Notes

171

(2)

Aldarion And Erendis: The Mariner's Wife

173

(45)

Notes

212

(6)

The Line of Elros: Kings Of Numenor

218

(10)

Notes

224

(4)

The History of Galadriel And Celeborn and of Amroth King of Lorien

228

(43)

Notes

252

(4)

Appendices (Appendix A, The Silvan Elves and their Speech

256

(1)

Appendix B, The Sindarin Princes of the Silven Elves

257

(3)

Appendix C, The Boundaries of Lorien

260

(1)

Appendix D, The Port of Lond Daer

261

(5)

Appendix E, The Names of Celeborn and Galadriel

266

(5)

PART THREE: THE THIRD AGE

The Disaster of The Gladden Fields

271

(17)

Notes

278

(7)

Appendix (Numenorean Linear Measures)

285

(3)

Cirion And Eorl And The Friendship of Gondor and Rohan

288

(33)

The Northmen and the Wainriders

288

(7)

The Ride of Eorl

295

(5)

Cirion and Eorl

300

(8)

The Tradition of Isildur

308

(2)

Notes

310

(11)

The Quest of Erebor

321

(16)

Notes

326

(1)

Appendix (Notes on the texts, and extracts from the earlier version)

327

(10)

The Hunt for The Ring

337

(18)

Of the Journey of the Black Riders according to the account that Gandalf gave to Frodo

337

(4)

Other Versions of the Story

341

(7)

Concerning Gandalf, Saruman and the Shire

348

(4)

Notes

352

(3)

The Battles Of The Fords of Isen

355

(22)

Notes

364

(2)

Appendix

366

(11)

PART FOUR

The Druedain

377

(11)

Notes

384

(4)

The Istari

388

(15)

Notes

400

(3)

The Palantiri

403

(13)

Notes

411

(5)

Index

416

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Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-Earth

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