The Lost Road and Other Writings. Christopher Tolkien

      

      J. R. R. TOLKIEN

      The Lost Road

      AND OTHER WRITINGS

      Language and Legend before

      ‘The Lord of the Rings’

      Christopher Tolkien

       COPYRIGHT

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      First published in Great Britain by Unwin Hyman 1987

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      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

Note on Accessibility

Preface

PART ONE: THE FALL OF NÚMENOR AND THE LOST ROAD

I THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE LEGEND

II THE FALL OF NÚMENOR

(i) The original outline

(ii) The first version of The Fall of Númenor

(iii) The second version of The Fall of Númenor

(iv) The further development of The Fall of Númenor

III THE LOST ROAD

(i) The opening chapters

(ii) The Númenórean chapters

(iii) The unwritten chapters

       PART TWO: VALINOR AND MIDDLE-EARTH BEFORE THE LORD OF THE RINGS

       I THE TEXTS AND THEIR RELATIONS

       II THE LATER ANNALS OF VALINOR

       III THE LATER ANNALS OF BELERIAND

       IV AINULINDALË

       V THE LHAMMAS

       VI QUENTA SILMARILLION

       PART THREE

       THE ETYMOLOGIES

       APPENDIX

       I THE GENEALOGIES

       II THE LIST OF NAMES

       III THE SECOND ‘SILMARILLION’ MAP

       Searchable Terms

       Other books by J.R.R. Tolkien

       About the Publisher

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