Contents.Foreword......................................................................................................................................... 3 Prologue........................................................................................................................................... 6 1. Concerning Hobbits................................................................................................................. 6 2. Concerning Pipe-weed.......................................................................................................... 10 3. Of the Ordering of the Shire.................................................................................................. 10 4. Of the Finding of the Ring..................................................................................................... 11 note on the shire records.................................................................................................... 13 Book I............................................................................................................................................ 15 Chapter 1 A Long-expected Party............................................................................................ 15 Chapter 2 The Shadow of the Past........................................................................................... 28 Chapter 3 Three is Company..................................................................................................... 42 Chapter 4 A Short Cut to Mushrooms...................................................................................... 55 Chapter 5 A Conspiracy Unmasked.......................................................................................... 63 Chapter 6 The Old Forest.......................................................................................................... 70 Chapter 7 In the House of Tom Bombadil................................................................................ 79 Chapter 8 Fog on the Barrow-Downs....................................................................................... 86 Chapter 9 At the Sign of The Prancing Pony........................................................................... 95 Chapter 10 Strider................................................................................................................... 104 Chapter 11 A Knife in the Dark.............................................................................................. 112 Chapter 12 Flight to the Ford................................................................................................. 125 Book II........................................................................................................................................ 137 Chapter 1 Many Meetings....................................................................................................... 137 Chapter 2 The Council of Elrond............................................................................................ 150 Chapter 3 The Ring Goes South............................................................................................. 170 Chapter 4 A Journey in the Dark............................................................................................ 184 Chapter 5 The Bridge of Khazad-dûm................................................................................... 200 Chapter 6 Lothlórien............................................................................................................... 207 Chapter 7 The Mirror of Galadriel.......................................................................................... 220 Chapter 8 Farewell to Lórien.................................................................................................. 229 Chapter 9 The Great River...................................................................................................... 237 Chapter 10 The Breaking of the Fellowship........................................................................... 246 Book III....................................................................................................................................... 254 Chapter 1 The Departure of Boromir...................................................................................... 254 Chapter 2 The Riders of Rohan.............................................................................................. 259 Chapter 3 The Uruk-Hai.......................................................................................................... 273 Chapter 4 Treebeard................................................................................................................ 283 Chapter 5 The White Rider..................................................................................................... 300 Chapter 6 The King of the Golden Hall.................................................................................. 312 Chapter 7 Helm's Deep........................................................................................................... 324 Chapter 8 The Road to Isengard............................................................................................. 334 Chapter 9 Flotsam and Jetsam................................................................................................ 344 Chapter 10 The Voice of Saruman.......................................................................................... 354 Chapter 11 The Palantír........................................................................................................... 361 Book IV....................................................................................................................................... 369 C hapter 1 The Taming of Sméagol.......................................................................................... 369 Chapter 2 The Passage of the Marshes.................................................................................... 380 Chapter 3 The Black Gate is Closed....................................................................................... 390 Chapter 4 Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit................................................................................. 398 Chapter 5 The Window on the West....................................................................................... 407 Chapter 6 The Forbidden Pool................................................................................................ 419 Chapter 7 Journey to the Cross-roads..................................................................................... 426 Chapter 8 The Stairs of Cirith Ungol...................................................................................... 432 Chapter 9 Shelob's Lair........................................................................................................... 441 Chapter 10 The Choices of Master Samwise.......................................................................... 448 Book V........................................................................................................................................ 457 Chapter 1 Minas Tirith............................................................................................................ 457 Chapter 2 The Passing of the Grey Company......................................................................... 473 Chapter 3 The Muster of Rohan.............................................................................................. 484 Chapter 4 The Siege of Gondor.............................................................................................. 493 Chapter 5 The Ride of the Rohirrim....................................................................................... 508 Chapter 6 The Battle of the Pelennor Fields........................................................................... 514 Chapter 7 The Pyre of Denethor............................................................................................. 521 Chapter 8 The Houses of Healing........................................................................................... 526 Chapter 9 The Last Debate..................................................................................................... 535 Chapter 10 The Black Gate Opens.......................................................................................... 542 Book VI....................................................................................................................................... 549 Chapter 1 The Tower of Cirith Ungol..................................................................................... 549 Chapter 2 The Land of Shadow.............................................................................................. 561 Chapter 3 Mount Doom.......................................................................................................... 571 Chapter 4 The Field of Cormallen........................................................................................... 581 Chapter 5 The Steward and the King..................................................................................... 587 Chapter 6 Many Partings......................................................................................................... 597 Chapter 7 Homeward Bound.................................................................................................. 607 Chapter 8 The Scouring of the Shire....................................................................................... 612 Chapter 9 The Grey Havens.................................................................................................... 626 APPENDIX A ANNALS OF THE KINGS AND RULERS................................................... 633 I THE NÚMENOREAN KINGS........................................................................................... 634 (i) NÚMENOR.................................................................................................................... 634 (ii) THE REALMS IN EXILE............................................................................................ 637 (iii) ERIADOR, ARNOR, AND THE HEIRS OF ISILDUR........................................... 638 (iv) GONDOR AND THE HEIRS OF ANÁRION.......................................................... 641 (v) here follows a part of the tale of Aragorn and Arwen....... 651 II THE HOUSE OF EORL.................................................................................................... 656 III DURIN'S FOLK............................................................................................................... 661 Here follows one of the last notes in the Red Book........................................................... 668 Appendix B The Tale of Years (Chronology of the Westlands)............................................................... 669 The Second Age.................................................................................................................. 669 The Third Age..................................................................................................................... 670 Appendix C Family Trees............................................................................................................ 681 Appendix D................................................................................................................................. 685 Shire Calendar for use in all years......................................................................... 685 THE CALENDARS............................................................................................................... 685 APPENDIX E WRITING AND SPELLING............................................................................ 690 I PRONUNCIATION OF WORDS AND NAMES............................................................. 690 II WRITING........................................................................................................................... 693 Appendix F.................................................................................................................................. 701 I THE LANGUAGES AND PEOPLES OF THE THIRD AGE.......................................... 701 II ON TRANSLATION......................................................................................................... 705
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