5/21/2023 0 Comments Meddling witch grim dawnThe first volume, The Fellowship of the Ring, was published in Great Britain by the London firm George Allen & Unwin on 29 July 1954 an American edition followed on 21 October of the same year, published by Houghton Mifflin Company of Boston. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings is often erroneously called a trilogy, when it is in fact a single novel, consisting of six books plus appendices, sometimes published in three volumes. TOLKIEN i NOTE ON THE TEXT NOTE ON THE 50 TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION FOREWORD TO THE SECOND EDITION 1 BOOK ONE I 21 42 65 86 98 123 135 149 163 176 197 II The Shadow of the Past III Three is Company IV A Short Cut to Mushrooms V A Conspiracy Unmasked VI The Old Forest VII In the House of Tom Bombadil VIII Fog on the Barrow-downs IX At the Sign of The Prancing Pony X Strider XI A Knife in the Dark XII Flight to the Ford BOOK TWO I Many Meetings 219 239 272 295 321 333 353 367 380 395 II The Council of Elrond III The Ring Goes South IV A Journey in the Dark V The Bridge of Khazad-duˆm VI Lothlo´rien VII The Mirror of Galadriel VIII Farewell to Lo´rien IX The Great River X The Breaking of the Fellowship THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING A Long-expected Party PROLOGUE Concerning Hobbits, and other matters x x v i 109 viii i vi T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS THE TWO TOWERS BOOK THREE I The Departure of Boromir 413 II The Riders of Rohan 421 III The Uruk-hai 444 IV Treebeard 461 V The White Rider 488 VI The King of the Golden Hall 506 VII Helm’s Deep 526 VIII The Road to Isengard 543 IX Flotsam and Jetsam 560 X The Voice of Saruman 576 XI The Palantı´r 588 BOOK FOUR I The Taming of Sme´agol 603 II The Passage of the Marshes 620 III The Black Gate is Closed 636 IV Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit 648 V The Window on the West 663 VI The Forbidden Pool 683 VII Journey to the Cross-roads 694 VIII The Stairs of Cirith Ungol 703 IX Shelob’s Lair 717 X The Choices of Master Samwise 728 THE RETURN OF THE KING BOOK FIVE I Minas Tirith 747 II The Passing of the Grey Company 773 III The Muster of Rohan 791 IV The Siege of Gondor 806 V The Ride of the Rohirrim 830 VI The Battle of the Pelennor Fields 839 VII The Pyre of Denethor 850 iv C ON TENTS VIII The Houses of Healing IX The Last Debate X The Black Gate Opens BOOK SIX I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX The Tower of Cirith Ungol The Land of Shadow Mount Doom The Field of Cormallen The Steward and the King Many Partings Homeward Bound The Scouring of the Shire The Grey Havens 858 872 883 897 916 933 948 958 974 9 APPENDICES A ANNALS OF THE KINGS AND RULERS 1033 I The Nu´meno´rean Kings 1033 II The House of Eorl 1063 III Durin’s Folk 1071 B THE TALE OF YEARS 1082 (CHRONOLOGY OF THE WESTLANDS) C FAMILY TREES (HOBBITS) 1099 D CALENDARS 1106 E WRITING AND SPELLING 1113 I Pronunciation of Words and Names 1113 II Writing 1117 F I The Languages and Peoples of the Third Age 1127 II On Translation 1133 INDEXES I Poems and Songs 1140 II Poems and Phrases in Languages Other Than Common Speech 1141 III Persons, Places and Things 1141 MAPS Copyright About the Publisher v Works by J.R.R. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. Tolkien Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
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