Quatrième de couverture
THE HISTORY OF MIDDLE-EARTH
Volume 9
CHRISTOPHER TOLKIEN
In the first section of Sauron defeated Christopher
Tolkien completes his fascinating study of The Lord of the Rings. Beginning
with Sam's rescue of Frodo from the Tower of Cirith Ungol, and giving a very
different account of the Scouring of the Shire, this section ends with versions
of the hitherto unpublished Epilogue, in which, years after the departure
of Bilbo and Frodo from the Grey Havens, Sam attempts to answer his children's
questions.
The second section is an edition of The Notion Club Papers, now published
for the first time. These mysterious papers, discovered in the early years of
the twenty-first century, report the discussions of an Oxford club in the years
1986-7, in which, after a number of topics, the centre of interest turns to
the legends of Atlantis, the strange communications received by other members
of the club from the past, and the violent irruption of the legend into the
North-west of Europe. Closely associated with the Papers is a new version
of the Drowning of Anadûnê, which constitutes the third part
of the book. At this time the language of the Men of the West, Adûnaic,
was first devised, and the book concludes with an account of its structure provided
by Arundel Lowdham, a member of the Notion Club, who learned it in his dreams.
Table des matières
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Foreword
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xi
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PART ONE
THE END OF THE THRID AGE
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I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
X.
XI.
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The Story of Frodo and Sam in Mordor
The Tower of Kirith Ungol
The Land of Shadow
Mount Doom
The Field of Kormallen
The Steward and the King
Many Partings
Homeward Bound
The Scouring of the Shire
The Grey Havens
The Epilogue
Appendix : Drawings of Orthanc and Dunharrow
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3
18
31
37
44
54
61
75
79
108
114
136
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PART TWO
THE NOTION CLUB PAPERS
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Introduction
Foreword and List of Members
The Notion Club Papers Part One
The Notion Club Papers Part Two
Major Divergences in Earlier Versions of Part Two
(i) The earlier versions of Night 66
(ii) The original version of Lowdham's 'Fragments'
(iii) The original version of Lowdham's 'Fragments' in Adunaic
(iv) Earlier versions of Edwin Lowdham's Old English text
(v) The page preserved from Edwin Lowdham's manuscript written in Númenórean
script
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145
155
161
222
299
309
311
313
318
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PART THREE
THE DROWNING OF ANADÛNÊ
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(i) The third version of The Fall of Númenor
(ii) The original text of The Drowning of Anadûnê
(iii) The second text of The Drowning of Anadûnê
(iv) The final form of The Drowning of Anadûnê
(v) The theory of the work
(vi) Lowdham's Report on the Adunaic Language
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331
340
357
387
397
413
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| Index |
441
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