Unnished Tales

Unnished Tales (full title Unnished Tales of Nmenor

The Line of Elros: Kings of Nmenor"
and Middle-earth) is a collection of stories and essays
The History of Galadriel and Celeborn"
by J. R. R. Tolkien that were never completed during his
lifetime, but were edited by his son Christopher Tolkien
Part Three: The Third Age:
and published in 1980.
Unlike The Silmarillion, for which the narrative fragments
were modied to connect into a consistent and coherent
work, the Unnished Tales are presented as Tolkien left
them, with little more than names changed (the author
having had a confusing habit of trying out dierent names
for a character while writing a draft). Thus some of these
are incomplete stories, while others are collections of information about Middle-earth. Each tale is followed by
a long series of notes explaining inconsistencies and obscure points.

The Disaster of the Gladden Fields"

"Cirion and Eorl and the Friendship of Gondor and
Rohan"
"The Quest of Erebor"
The Hunt for the Ring
The Battles of the Fords of Isen"

As with The Silmarillion, Christopher Tolkien edited and Part Four

published Unnished Tales before he had nished his
study of the materials in his fathers archive. Unnished
The Dredain"
Tales provides more detailed information about characters, events and places mentioned only briey in The Lord
The Istari"
of the Rings. Versions of such tales including the origins
The Palantri"
of Gandalf and the other Istari (Wizards), the death of
Isildur and the loss of the One Ring in the Gladden Fields,
and the founding of the kingdom of Rohan help expand
knowledge about Middle-earth.
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The commercial success of Unnished Tales demonstrated that the demand for Tolkiens stories several years
after his death was not only still present, it was growing.
Encouraged by the result, Christopher Tolkien embarked
upon the more ambitious twelve-volume work entitled
The History of Middle-earth which encompasses nearly
the entire corpus of Tolkiens writings about Middleearth.

The Tolkien Library

More Info on Unnished Tales at Tolkien Online

Contents

Part One: The First Age:

Of Tuor and his Coming to Gondolin"
"Narn i Hn Hrin (The Tale of the Children of
Hrin)"
Part Two: The Second Age:
A Description of the Island of Nmenor"
"Aldarion and Erendis: The Mariners Wife
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