Tolkien, J R R - The Lord Of The Rings 4 - Appendices And Index

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by  Tolkien J.R.R

J. R. R. Tolkien — The Lord Of The Rings. (4/4)
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APPENDICES
A ANNALS OF THE KINGS AND RULERS
I The Númenorean Kings
(I) Númenor
(II) The Realms In Exile
(III) Eriador, Arnor, and The Heirs Of Isildur
(IV) Gondor and The Heirs Of Anñrion
(V) Here Follows a Part of The Tale of Aragorn and Arwen
II THE HOUSE OF EORL
III DURIN'S FOLK
Here follows one of the last notes in the Red Book

B THE TALE OF YEARS (CHRONOLOGY OF THE WESTLANDS)
The Second Age
The Third Age
C FAMILY TREES
D CALENDARS
SHIRE CALENDAR FOR USE IN ALL YEARS
THE CALENDARS
E WRITING AND SPELLING
I Pronunciation of Words and Names
II Writing
F
I The Languages and Peoples of The Third Age
II On Translation
INDEXES
I Songs and Verses
II Persons, Beasts and Monsters
III Places
IV Things
APPENDIX A
ANNALS OF THE KINGS AND RULERS
Concerning the sources for most of the matter contained in the following
Appendices, especially A to D, see the note at the end of the Prologue. The
section A III, Durin's Folk, was probably derived from Gimli the Dwarf, who
maintained his friendship with Peregrin and Meriadoc and met them again many
times in Gondor and Rohan.
The legends, histories, and lore to be found in the sources are very extensive.
Only selections from them, in most places much abridged, are here presented.
Their principal purpose is to illustrate the War of the Ring and its origins, and to
fill up some of the gaps in the main story. The ancient legends of the First Age,
in which Bilbo's chief interest lay, are very briefly referred to, since they concern
the ancestry of Elrond and the Númenorean kings and chieftains. Actual extracts
from longer annals and tales are placed within quotation marks. Insertions of
later date are enclosed in brackets. Notes within quotation marks are found in the
sources. Others are editorial.
The dates given are those of the Third Age, unless they are marked S.A. (Second
Age) or F.A. (Fourth Age). The Third Age was held to have ended when the
Three Rings passed away in September 3021, but for the purposes of records in
Gondor F.A.I began on March 25, 3021. On the equation of the dating of Gondor
and Shire Reckoning see Vols. I 23 and III 486. In lists the dates following the
names of kings and rulers are the dates of their deaths, if only one date is
given.The sign † indicates a premature death, in battle or otherwise, though an
annal of the event is not always included.
I
THE NUMENOREAN KINGS

(i)
NÚMENOR
Fëanor was the greatest of the Eldar in arts and lore, but also the proudest and
most selfwilled. He wrought the Three Jewels, the Silmarilli, and filled them
with the radiance of the Two Trees, Telperion and Laurelin, that gave light to the
land of the Valar. The Jewels were coveted by Morgoth the Enemy, who stole
them and, after destroying the Trees, took them to Middle-earth, and guarded
them in his great fortress of Thangorodrim. Against the will of the Valar Fëanor
forsook the Blessed Realm and went in exile to Middle-earth, leading with him a
great part of his people; for in his pride he purposed to recover the Jewels from
Morgoth by force. Thereafter followed the hopeless war of the Eldar and the
Edain against Thangorodrim, in which they were at last utterly defeated. The
Edain (Atani) were three peoples of Men who, coming first to the West of
Middle-earth and the shores of the Great Sea, became allies of the Eldar against
the Enemy.
There were three unions of the Eldar and the Edain: Lúthien and Beren; Idril and
Tuor; Arwen and Aragorn. By the last the long-sundered branches of the Half-
elven were reunited and their line was restored.
Lúthien Tinúviel was the daughter of King Thingol Greycloak of Doriath in the
First Age, but her mother was Melian of the people of the Valar. Beren was the
son of Barahir of the First House of the Edain. Together they wrested a silmaril
from the Iron Crown of Morgoth. Lúthien became mortal and was lost to Elven-
kind. Dior was her son. Elwing was his daughter and had in her keeping the
silmaril.
Idril Celebrindal was the daughter of Turgon, king of the hidden city of
Gondolin. Tuor was the son of Huor of the House of Hador, the Third House of
the Edain and the most renowned in the wars with Morgoth. Eärendil the
Mariner was their son.
Mariner was their son.
Eärendil wedded Elwing, and with the power of the silmaril passed the Shadows
and came to the Uttermost West, and speaking as ambassador of both Elves and
Men obtained the help by which Morgoth was overthrown. Eärendil was not
permitted to return to mortal lands, and his ship bearing the silmaril was set to
sail in the heavens as a star, and a sign of hope to the dwellers in Middle-earth
oppressed by the Great Enemy of his servants. The silmarilli alone preserved the
ancient light of the Two Trees of Valinor before Morgoth poisoned them; but the
other two were lost at the end of the Firth Age. Of these things the full tale, and
much else concerning Elves and Men, is told in The Silmarillion.
The sons of Eärendil were Elros and Elrond, the Peredhil or Half-elven. In them
alone the line of the heroic chieftains of the Edain in the First Age was
preserved; and after the fall of Gil-galad the lineage of the High-elven Kings was
also in Middle-earth only represented by their descendants.
At the end of the First Age the Valar gave to the Half-elven an irrevocable
choice to which kindred they would belong. Elrond chose to be of Elven-kind,
and became a master of wisdom. To him therefore was granted the same grace as
to those of the High Elves that still lingered in Middle-earth: that when weary at
last of the mortal lands they could take ship from the Grey Havens and pass into
the Uttermost West; and this grace continued after the change of the world. But
to the children of Elrond a choice was also appointed: to pass with him from the
circles of the world; or if they remained, to become mortal and die in Middle-
earth. For Elrond, therefore, all chances of the War of the Ring were fraught
with sorrow.
Elros chose to be of Man-kind and remain with the Edain; bet a great life-span
was granted to him many times that of lesser men.
As a reward for their sufferings in the cause against Morgoth, the Valar, the
Guardians of the World, granted to the Edain a land to dwell in, removed from
the dangers of Middle-earth. Most of them, therefore, set sail over Sea, and
guided by the Star of Eärendil came to the great Isle of Elenna, westernmost of
all Mortal lands. There they founded the realm of Númenor.
There was a tall mountain in the midst of the land, the Meneltarma, and from its
summit the farsighted could descry the white tower of the Haven of the Eldar in
Eressëa. Thence the Eldar came to the Edain and enriched them with knowledge
and many gifts; but one command had been laid upon the Númenoreans, the 'Ban