Quatrième de couverture
THE HISTORY OF MIDDLE-EARTH
Volume 12
CHRISTOPHER TOLKIEN
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 Commun Speech (from which many
words and names are recorded that were afterwards lost), ahd 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 includes 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 Númenórean ships is seen through the eyes of men of Middle-earth
in the Dark Years.
Table des matières
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Foreword
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vii
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PART ONE
THE PROLOGUE AND APPENDICES TO « THE LORD OF THE RINGS »
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I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX. |
The Prologue
The Appendix on Languages
The Family Trees
The Calendars
The History of the Akallabêth
The Tale of Years of the Second Age
The Heirs of Elendil
The Tale of Years of the Third Age
The Making of Appendix A
(i) The Realms in Exile
(ii) The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen
(iii) The House of Eorl
(iv) Durin's Folk
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3
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85
119
140
166
188
225
253
262
270
274
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PART TWO
LATE WRITINGS
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X.
XI.
XII.
XIII.
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Of Dwarves and Men
The Shibboleth of Fëanor
The Problem of Ros
Last Writings
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295
331
367
377
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PART THREE
TEACHINGS OF PENGOLOD
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XIV.
XV.
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Dangweth Pengolod
Of Lembas
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395
403
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PART FOUR
UNFINISHED TALES
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THE TALE OF THE SUN AND MOON
Notes and Commentary
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174
195
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| IX. |
THE HIDING OF VALINOR
Notes and Commentary
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207
219
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X.
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GILFANON'S TALE: THE TRAVAIL OF THE NOLDOLI AND THE COMING OF MANKIND
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229
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Appendix: Names in the Lost Tales - Part
I
Short Glossary of Obsolete, Archaic, and Rare Words
Index |
246
274
276
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