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The Treason of Isengard

HoME 7 — the drafting of the middle books of The Lord of the Rings

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Nature

Volume 7 of The History of Middle-earth, the second of the four volumes on the making of The Lord of the Rings. It follows the story from the council of Elrond and the journey through Moria, Lórien, and into Rohan and Fangorn — the point at which the ancient wood of the Ents walks, and the wizardry of Saruman begins to work against the travellers. The drafting is again Third Age matter within the vault’s scope.

Contents

  • The Council of Elrond, and the Ring Goes South — the choices and the way under the mountains
  • The Mines of Moria — the Doors of Durin, and the fall of Gandalf
  • Lothlórien and the Mirror of Galadriel — the invention of Galadriel’s realm and the gift of the phial
  • The Treason of Isengard — the meeting with Fangorn, the creation of Treebeard and the Ents, the “Long Conversation”, and the road to Isengard
  • The return of Gandalf — the White Rider among the Riders of Rohan
  • Appendix: the history of the Cirth, with the maps and the “story outlines” Tolkien drew up between books

Composition

Written during 1940-1942, the text grew in successive “scenes” typed and retyped under the niggling of war years; the volume’s title, from the chapter on Saruman’s overthrow, was Tolkien’s own phrase for the betrayal of the White Council. Christopher Tolkien reconstructed the order and interrelations of dozens of drafts.

Verknüpfte Seiten

The Return of the ShadowThe War of the RingSauron DefeatedSarumanEntsTreebeardGandalfConcordance — A to ZThe History of Middle-earthThe Peoples of Middle-earth
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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