The Fellowship of the Ring - J. R. R. Tolkien [251]
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The Children of Húrin
The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún
THE HISTORY OF MIDDLE-EARTH – BY CHRISTOPHER TOLKIEN
I The Book of Lost Tales, Part One
II The Book of Lost Tales, Part Two
III The Lays of Beleriand
IV The Shaping of Middle-earth
V The Lost Road and Other Writings
VI The Return of the Shadow
VII The Treason of Isengard
VIII The War of the Ring
IX Sauron Defeated
X Morgoth’s Ring
XI The War of the Jewels
XII The Peoples of Middle-earth
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* As the records of Gondor relate this was Argeleb II, the twentieth of the Northern line, which came to an end with Arvedui three hundred years later.
* Thus, the years of the Third Age in the reckoning of the Elves and the Dúnedain may be found by adding 1600 to the dates of Shire-reckoning.
* See Appendix B: annals 1451, 1462, 1482; and note at end of Appendix C.
* Represented in much reduced form in Appendix B as far as the end of the Third Age.
* See note 2, III, p. 1458
* Elves (and Hobbits) always refer to the Sun as She.
* The Hobbits’ name for the Plough or Great Bear.
* The Brandywine River.
* See note in Appendix F: Of the Elves.