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.
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J. R. R. Tolkien. Unfinished Tales
NOTE
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE
I. OF TUOR AND HIS COMING TO GONDOLIN
II. NARN I HÎN HÚRIN
PART TWO
I. A DESCRIPTION OF THE ISLAND OF NÚMENOR
II. ALDARION AND ERENDIS
III. THE LINE OF ELROS: KINGS OF NÚMENOR
IV. THE HISTORY OF GALADRIEL AND CELEBORN
PART THREE
I. THE DISASTER OF THE GLADDEN FIELDS
II. CIRION AND EORL AND THE FRIENDSHIP OF GONDOR AND ROHAN
III. THE QUEST OF EREBOR
IV. THE HUNT FOR THE RING
V. THE BATTLES OF THE FORDS OF ISEN
I. THE DRÚEDAIN
II. THE ISTARI
III. THE PALANTÍRI
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INDEX
WORKS BY J. R. R. TOLKIEN
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UNFINISHED TALES
of Númenor and Middle-earth
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Therefore all through that bitter day they toiled on, deeming the peril of foes less than the winter; but ever as they went they found less snow, for they were now going southward again down into the Vale of Sirion, and the Mountains of Dor-lómin were left far behind. In the deepening dusk they came to the Highway at the bottom of a tall wooded bank. Suddenly they were aware of voices, and looking out warily from the trees they saw a red light below. A company of Orcs was encamped in the midst of the road, huddled about a large wood-fire.
‘Gurth an Glamhoth!’ Tuor muttered. 18 ‘Now the sword shall come from under the cloak. I will risk death for mastery of that fire, and even the meat of Orcs would be a prize.’
