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01 The Book of Lost Tales I
01.FW Foreword
01.01 The Cottage of Lost Play
01.02 The Music of the Ainur
01.03 The Coming of the Valar and the Building of Valinor
01.04 The Chaining of Melko
01.05 The Coming of the Elves and the Making of Kôr
01.06 The Theft of Melko and the Darkening of Valinor
01.07 The Flight of the Noldoli
01.08 The Tale of the Sun and Moon
01.09 The Hiding of Valinor
01.10 Gilfanon’s Tale — The Travail of the Noldoli an...
01.AP Appendix: Names in the Lost Tales — Part I
01.GL Short Glossary of Obsolete, Archaic, and Rare Words
02 The Book of Lost Tales II
02.PR Preface
02.01 The Tale of Tinúviel
02.02 Turambar and the Foalókë
02.03 The Fall of Gondolin
02.04 The Nauglafring
02.05 The Tale of Eärendel
02.06 The History of Eriol or Ælfwine and the End of ...
02.AP Appendix: Names in the Lost Tales — Part II
02.GL Short Glossary of Obsolete, Archaic, and Rare Words
03 The Lays of Beleriand
03.PR Preface
03.1.00 The Lay of the Children of Húrin (Introduction)
03.1.01 The Lay of the Children of Húrin (First Version)
03.1.02 The Lay of the Children of Húrin (Second Version)
03.1.03 Verses associated with The Children of Húrin
03.2.00 Poems Early Abandoned (Introduction)
03.2.01 The Flight of the Noldoli
03.2.02 Fragment of an alliterative Lay of Eärendel
03.2.03 The Lay of the Fall of Gondolin
03.3.00 The Lay of Leithian (Introduction)
03.3.01 The Lay of Leithian (Canto I: Of Thingol)
03.3.02 The Lay of Leithian (Canto II: Gorlim’s betraya...
03.3.03 The Lay of Leithian (Canto III: Beren’s meeting...
03.3.04 The Lay of Leithian (Canto IV: Beren before Thingol)
03.3.05 The Lay of Leithian (Canto V: Lúthien’s captivi...
03.3.06 The Lay of Leithian (Canto VI: Beren in Nargothrond)
03.3.07 The Lay of Leithian (Canto VII: Beren and Felag...
03.3.08 The Lay of Leithian (Canto VIII: Lúthien in Nar...
03.3.09 The Lay of Leithian (Canto IX: The defeat of Thû)
03.3.10 The Lay of Leithian (Canto X: The attack by Cel...
03.3.11 The Lay of Leithian (Canto XI: The disguising o...
03.3.12 The Lay of Leithian (Canto XII: Fingolfin and M...
03.3.13 The Lay of Leithian (Canto XIII: Beren and Lúth...
03.3.14 The Lay of Leithian (Canto XIV: Escape from Angband)
03.3.UC The Lay of Leithian (Unwritten Cantos)
03.3.AP The Lay of Leithian (Commentary by C.S. Lewis)
03.4 The Lay of Leithian Recommenced
03.NT Note on the original submission of the _Lay of ...
03.GL Glossary of Obsolete, Archaic, and Rare Words a...
04 The Shaping of Middle-earth
04.PR Preface
04.01 Prose Fragments Following the Lost Tales
04.02 The Earliest ‘Silmarillion’
04.03 The Quenta
04.04 The First ‘Silmarillion’ Map
04.05 The Ambarkanta
04.06 The Earliest Annals of Valinor
04.07 The Earliest Annals of Beleriand
05 The Lost Road and other writings
05.PR Preface
05.1.01 The Early History of the Legend
05.1.02 The Fall of Númenor
05.1.03 The Lost Road
05.2.01 The Texts and Their Relations
05.2.02 The Later Annals of Valinor
05.2.03 The Later Annals of Beleriand
05.2.04 Ainulindalë
05.2.05 The Lhammas
05.2.06 Quenta Silmarillion
05.3.01 The Etymologies
05.AP.01 The Genealogies
05.AP.02 The List of Names
05.AP.03 The Second ‘Silmarillion’ Map
06 The Return of the Shadow
06.FW Foreword
06.01 A Long-expected Party
06.02 From Hobbiton to the Woody End
06.03 Of Gollum and the Ring
06.04 To Maggot’s Farm and Buckland
06.05 The Old Forest and the Withywindle
06.06 Tom Bombadil
06.07 The Barrow-wight
06.08 Arrival at Bree
06.09 Trotter and the Journey to Weathertop
06.10 The Attack on Weathertop
06.11 From Weathertop to the Ford
06.12 At Rivendell
06.13 ‘Queries and Alterations’
06.14 Return to Hobbiton
06.15 Ancient History
06.16 Delays Are Dangerous
06.17 A Short Cut to Mushrooms
06.18 Again from Buckland to the Withywindle
06.19 The Journey to Bree
06.20 At the Sign of the Prancing Pony
06.21 To Weathertop and Rivendell
06.22 New Uncertainties and New Projections
06.23 In the House of Elrond
06.24 The Ring Goes South
06.25 The Mines of Moria
07 The Treason of Isengard
07.FW Foreword
07.01 Gandalf’s Delay
07.02 The Fourth Phase (1): From Hobbiton to Bree
07.03 The Fourth Phase (2): From Bree to the Ford of ...
07.04 Of Hamilcar, Gandalf, and Saruman
07.05 Bilbo’s Song at Rivendell: *Errantry* and *Eäre...
07.06 The Council of Elrond (1)
07.07 The Council of Elrond (2)
07.08 The Ring Goes South
07.09 The Mines of Moria (1): The Lord of Moria
07.10 The Mines of Moria (2): The Bridge
07.11 The Story Foreseen from Moria
07.12 Lothlórien
07.13 Galadriel
07.14 Farewell to Lórien
07.15 The First Map of The Lord of the Rings
07.16 The Story Foreseen from Lórien
07.17 The Great River
07.18 The Breaking of the Fellowship
07.19 The Departure of Boromir
07.20 The Riders of Rohan
07.21 The Uruk-hai
07.22 Treebeard
07.23 Notes on Various Topics
07.24 The White Rider
07.25 The Story Foreseen from Fangorn
07.26 The King of the Golden Hall
07.AP Appendix on Runes
08 The War of the Ring
08.FW Foreword
08.1.01 The Destruction of Isengard
08.1.02 Helm’s Deep
08.1.03 The Road to Isengard
08.1.04 Flotsam and Jetsam
08.1.05 The Voice of Saruman
08.1.06 The Palantír
08.2.01 The Taming of Sméagol
08.2.02 The Passage of the Marshes
08.2.03 The Black Gate is Closed
08.2.04 Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
08.2.05 Faramir
08.2.06 The Forbidden Pool
08.2.07 Journey to the Cross-Roads
08.2.08 Kirith Ungol
08.3.01 Addendum to ‘The Treason of Isengard’
08.3.02 Book Five Begun and Abandoned
08.3.03 Minas Tirith
08.3.04 Many Roads Lead Eastward (1)
08.3.05 Many Roads Lead Eastward (2)
08.3.06 The Siege of Gondor
08.3.07 The Ride of the Rohirrim
08.3.08 The Story Foreseen from Forannest
08.3.09 The Battle of the Pelennor Fields
08.3.10 The Pyre of Denethor
08.3.11 The Houses of Healing
08.3.12 The Last Debate
08.3.13 The Black Gate Opens
08.3.14 The Second Map
09 Sauron Defeated
09.FW Foreword
09.1.01 The Story of Frodo and Sam in Mordor
09.1.02 The Tower of Kirith Ungol
09.1.03 The Land of Shadow
09.1.04 Mount Doom
09.1.05 The Field of Kormallen
09.1.06 The Steward and the King
09.1.07 Many Partings
09.1.08 Homeward Bound
09.1.09 The Scouring of the Shire
09.1.10 The Grey Havens
09.1.11 The Epilogue
09.1.AP Appendix: Drawings of Orthanc and Dunharrow
09.2.01 Introduction
09.2.02 Foreword and List of Members
09.2.03 *The Notion Club Papers* Part One
09.2.04 *The Notion Club Papers* Part Two
09.2.05 Major Divergences in Earlier Versions of Part Two
09.3.01 The third version of *The Fall of Númenor*
09.3.02 The original text of *The Drowning of Anadûnê*
09.3.03 The second text of *The Drowning of Anadûnê*
09.3.04 The final form of *The Drowning of Anadûnê*
09.3.05 The theory of the work
09.3.06 Lowdham’s Report on the Adûnaic Language
10 Morgoth’s Ring
10.FW Foreword
10.1.01 Ainulindalë
10.2.01 The Annals of Aman
10.3.00 The Later Quenta Silmarillion (Introduction)
10.3.01 Of the Valar
10.3.02 Of Valinor and the Two Trees
10.3.03 Of the Coming of the Elves
10.3.04 Of Thingol and Melian
10.3.05 Of Eldanor and the Princes of the Eldalië
10.3.06 Of the Silmarils and the Darkening of Valinor
10.3.07 Of the Flight of the Noldor
10.3.08 Of the Sun and Moon and the Hiding of Valinor
10.3.09 The Later Quenta Silmarillion (The Second Phase...
10.3.10 The Valaquenta
10.3.11 The Earliest Version of the Story of Finwë and Míriel
10.3.12 Laws and Customs among the Eldar
10.3.13 Later Versions of the Story of Finwë and Míriel
10.3.14 Of Fëanor and the Unchaining of Melkor
10.3.15 Of the Silmarils and the Unrest of the Noldor
10.3.16 Of the Darkening of Valinor
10.3.17 The Later Development of Chapter 7 (Introduction)
10.3.18 Of the Rape of the Silmarils
10.3.19 Of the Thieves’ Quarrel
10.3.20 The Later Development of Chapter 7 (Commentary ...
10.4.01 Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth
10.5.01 Myths Transformed
10.AP Appendix: Synopsis of the Texts
11 The War of the Jewels
11.FW Foreword
11.1.01 The Grey Annals
11.2.00 The Later Quenta Silmarillion (Introduction)
11.2.09 Of Men
11.2.10 Of the Siege of Angband
11.2.11 Of Beleriand and Its Realms
11.2.12 Of Turgon and the Building of Gondolin
11.2.13 Of Concerning the Dwarves
11.2.14 Of the Coming of Men into the West
11.2.15 Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin
11.2.LC The Last Chapters
11.3.01 The Wanderings of Húrin
11.3.02 Ælfwine and Dírhaval
11.3.03 Maeglin
11.3.04 Of the Ents and the Eagles
11.3.05 The Tale of Years
11.4.01 Quendi and Eldar
12 The Peoples of Middle-earth
12.FW Foreword
12.01 The Prologue
12.02 The Appendix on Languages
12.03 The Family Trees
12.04 The Calendars
12.05 The History of the Akallabeth
12.06 The Tale of Years of the Second Age
12.07 The Heirs of Elendil
12.08 The Tale of Years of the Third Age
12.09 The Making of Appendix A
12.10 Of Dwarves and Men
12.11 The Shibboleth of Fëanor
12.12 The Problem of Ros
12.13 Last Writings
12.14 Dangweth Pengoloð
12.15 Of Lembas
12.16 The New Shadow
12.17 Tal-Elmar