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Wizard’s Vale see Nan Curunír
Wold of Rohan 558, 572, 1053, 1094, 1282, 1396, 1401, 1428
Wolf, Farmer Maggot’s dog 120, 121
Wolf of Angband 253
Wolf-riders 568, 690, 719
Wolves 7, 120, 339, 341, 357, 387–8, 400, 401, 402, 447, 455, 522, 688, 718, 719, 723, 738, 746, 747, 885, 1300, 1414, 1434; wargs 290, 387–90; white wolves 231, 375, 1429; Hound of Sauron 389; see also Wolf of Angband
Wood-elves see Elves
Woodhall 93, 100, 106, 114–16
Woodmen, of Mirkwood 76; language of 1483–4
Woody End 93, 96, 97, 103, 1201, 1310, 1320, 1329, 1344, 1441
World’s End 307
Wormtongue (Gríma, son of Gálmód) 567, 664, 670–81 passim, 689, 690, 710, 724, 726, 746–50 passim, 754, 762, 763, 782–3, 1037, 1134, 1135, 1288, 1289, 1333–5, 1467, 1493; name 1493
Woses see Wild Men
Wraiths see Nazgûl
Writing and spelling, in Middle-earth 5, 1461–77; see also Elvish writing; Runes; Tengwar; writing under names of peoples, e.g. Dwarves
Wulf 1398, 1399, 1400, 1428
Yale, the 100, 1446, 1447
Yellowskin (Yearbook of Tuckborough) 1458
Younger Days 337
Yule 1337, 1452, 1455
Zirakzigil (Zirak) see Celebdil
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Leaf by Niggle
On Fairy-Stories
Farmer Giles of Ham
The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
The Lord of the Rings
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
The Road Goes Ever On (with Donald Swann)
Smith of Wootton Major
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl and Sir Orfeo
The Father Christmas Letters
The Silmarillion
Pictures by J.R.R. Tolkien
Unfinished Tales
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
Finn and Hengest
Mr Bliss
The Monsters and the Critics & Other Essays
Roverandom
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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