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The Peoples of Middle-earth

HoME 12 — genealogies, the Istari, the Dwarves' lore, and the late texts of the Third Age

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Nature

Volume 12 of The History of Middle-earth, the concluding volume, gathering the late writings for the appendices of The Lord of the Rings along with the final dicta on the peoples of the elder world: the genealogies, the esoteric lore, the Istari, and the Dwarves.

Contents

  • The Prologue and its drafts
  • The Appendix on Languages
  • The Family Trees
  • The Calendars
  • The History of the Akallabêth
  • The Tale of Years of the Third Age
  • The Istari (The Istari) — the fullest late account of the five Wizards
  • The Palantíri ()
  • The Shibboleth of Fëanor () — on the names of the House of Finwë
  • The Problem of Ros — the argument from the suffix in the names Elros and Elrond
  • Of Dwarves and Men — the lore of the Seven Fathers and the earth-born people
  • The New Shadow — the abandoned sequel to The Lord of the Rings
  • Tal-Elmar — the late tale of the coming of the Númenóreans

Composition

The chapters come from the 1950s-1960s, much of it prepared for a revised edition of The Lord of the Rings and the expansion of its appendices; Christopher Tolkien printed them with commentary and connected them to the corresponding Unfinished Tales and Silmarillion texts, closing the twelve-volume series.

Verknüpfte Seiten

The IstariThe Return of the ShadowThe Treason of IsengardThe War of the RingSauron DefeatedDwarvesThe Seven Fathers of the DwarvesThe FaithfulFëanorFinwëElrondElrosConcordance — A to ZThe War of the JewelsThe History of Middle-earthThe Shibboleth of Fëanor
Werke: die Quellen sind seitenübergreifend die Bücher von J.R.R. und Christopher Tolkien (Silmarillion, Hobbit, Herr der Ringe, Unfinished Tales, History of Middle-earth, Nature of Middle-earth u. a.) — eigene Zusammenfassung. Siehe die Concordance und den README der Quelle für die Einzelbelege.
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