In the first part of Sauron Defeated Christopher Tolkien
completes his account of the writing of The Lord of the
Rings: beginning with Sam's rescue of Frodo from the
Tower of Cirith Ungol, and giving a very different account
of the Scouring of the Shire, this part ends with versions
of the hitherto unpublished Epilogue, in which, years after
the departure of Bilbo and Frodo from the Grey Havens,
Sam attempts to answer his children's questions.
The second part is an edition of the previously unpublished
Notion Club Papers. This was written by J.R.R. Tolkien
in the interval between The Tv o Towers and The Return
of the King. These mysterious Papers, discovered in the
early years of the twenty-first century, report the discussions
of a literary club in Oxford in the years 1986-7, in which,
after an account by one of the members of the possibilities
of travel in space and time through the medium of 'true
dream', the centre of interest turns to the legend of Atlantis,
the strange communications received by other memhers of
the club out of the remote past, and the violent irruption
of the legend into the North-west of Europe. Closely
associated with the Papers is a new version of the
Numenorean legend, The Drowning of Anadune, which
constitutes the third part of the book. At this time the
language of the Men of the West, Adunaic, was first devised,
and the book concludes with an elaborate though unfinished
account of its structure provided by Arundel Lowdham, a
member of the Notion Club, who learned it in his dreams.
CONTENTS.
Foreword. page xi.
PART ONE: THE END OF THE THIRD AGE.
I The Story of Frodo and Sam in Mordor 3
II The Tower of Kirith Ungol 18
III The Land of Shadow 31
IV Mount Doom 37
V The Field of Kormallen 44
VI The Steward and the King 54
VII Many Partings 61
VIII Homeward Bound 75
IX The Scouring of the Shire 79
X The Grey Havens 108
XI The Epilogue 114
Appendix: Drawings of Orthanc and Dunharrow 136
PAKT TWO: THE NOTION CLUB PAPERS.
Introduction 145
Foreword and List of Members 155
The Notion Club Papers Part One 161
The Notion Club Papers Part Two 222
Major Divergences in Earlier Versions of Part Two
(i) The earlier versions of Night 66 299
(ii) The original version of Lowdham's 'Fragments' 309
(iii) The earlier versions of Lowdham's 'Fragments'
in Adunaic 311
SAURON DEFEATED
(iv) Earlier versions of Edwin Lowdham's
Old English text 313
(v) The page preserved from Edwin Lowdham's
manuscript written in Numenorean script 318
PART THREE: THE DROWNING OF ANADUNE
(i) The third version of The Fall of Numenor 331
(ii) The original text of The Drowning of Anadune 340
(iii) The second text of The Drowning of Anadune 357
(iv) The final form of The Drowning of Anadune 387
(v) The theory of the work 397
(vi) Lowdham's Report on the Adunaic Language 413
Index 441
ILLUSTRATIONS.
Arundel Lowdham's 'Fragments' page ii -iii
The Tower of Kirith Ungol 19
Mount Doom 42
First copy of the King's letter 130
Third copy of the King's letter 131
Orthanc I 138
Orthanc II 139
Orthanc III 139
Dunharrow I 140
Dunharrow II 141
Title-page of The Notion Club Papers 154
The surviving page of Edwin Lowdham's manuscript:
Text I, recto 319
Text I, verso 320
Text II 321
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