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The peoples of Middle-earth

This final volume in "The History of Middle-earth" concludes with two soon-abandoned stories, both unique in the setting of time or place. "The New Shadow" takes place in Gondor of the Fourth Age, while the tale of "Tal-elmar" is seen through the eyes of the men of Middle-earth in the Dark Years.

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  • "Study of the Appendices to "The Lord of the Rings," which contain the historical structure of the Second and Third Ages, with additional writings from Tolkien's later years offering new insights into his fictional world, and the abandoned beginnings of two other stories."
  • "This final volume in "The History of Middle-earth" concludes with two soon-abandoned stories, both unique in the setting of time or place. "The New Shadow" takes place in Gondor of the Fourth Age, while the tale of "Tal-elmar" is seen through the eyes of the men of Middle-earth in the Dark Years."@en
  • "When J.R.R. Tolkien laid aside The Silmarillion in 1937 the extension of the original 'mythology' into later Ages of the world had scarcely begun. It was in the Appendices to The Lord of the Rings that there emerged a comprehensive historical structure and chronology of the Second and Third Ages, embracing all the diverse strands that came together in the War of the Ring. The difficulty that he found in providing these Appendices, leading to delay in the publication of The Return of the King, is well known; but in The Peoples of Middle-earth Christopher Tolkien shows that early forms of these works already existed years before, in essays and records differing greatly from the published forms. He traces the evolution of the Calendars, the Hobbit genealogies, the Westron language or Common Speech (from which many words and names are recorded that were afterwards lost), and the chronological structure of the later Ages. Other writings by J.R.R. Tolkien are included in this final volume of The History of Middle-earth, chiefly deriving from his last years, when new insights and new constructions still freely arose as he pondered the history that he had created. The book concludes with two soon-abandoned stories, both unique in the setting of time and place: The New Shadow in Gondor of the Fourth Age, and the tale of Tal-Elmar, in which the coming of the dreaded Numenorean ships is seen through the eyes of men of Middle-earth in the Dark Years."

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