false 23600 3 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 Kirith Ungol, and giving a very different account of the Scouring of the Shire. This part ends with versions of the previously unpublished Epilogue, an alternate ending to the masterpiece in which Sam attempts to answer his children's questions years after the departure of Bilbo and Frodo from the Grey Havens. The second part introduces The Notion Club Papers, now published for the first time. Written by J.R.R. Tolkien in the interval between The Two Towers and The Return of the King (1945-1946), 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 1986-1987. Those familiar with the Inklings will see a parallel with the group whose members included J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. After a discussion of the possiblities of travel through space and time through the medium of 'true dream," the story turns to the legend of Atlantis, the strange communications received by members of the club out of remote past, and the violent irruption of the legend into northwestern 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 - Tolkien's fifteenth invented language. The book concludes with an elaborate account of the structure of this language by Arundel Lowdham, a member of the Notion Club, who learned it in his dreams. Sauron Defeated is illustrated with the changing conceptions of the fortress of Kirith Ungol and Mount Doom, previously unpublished drawings of Orthanc and Dunharrow, and fragments of manuscript written in Numenorean script. 2963740 27 10 1992 Sauron Defeated: The History of The Lord of the Rings, Part Four (The History of Middle-Earth, Vol. 9) total:217|5:80|4:66|3:65|2:6|1:0| 217 871 476 3 4 0 false false Fri Jul 11 18:10:45 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 11 18:13:41 -0700 2008 The Lord of the Rings.more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jul 18 16:40:38 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 18 16:40:38 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sat May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Wed Jul 09 17:04:18 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 09 17:04:54 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue Nov 10 10:34:03 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 10 10:34:03 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Nov 09 17:24:40 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 17:24:40 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Nov 09 17:14:04 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 17:14:04 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Nov 06 14:18:45 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 06 14:18:45 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Thu Nov 05 12:13:54 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 05 12:13:54 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Mon Nov 02 09:26:16 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 09:26:16 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sun Nov 01 05:31:51 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 01 05:31:51 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Tue Oct 27 05:05:07 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 05:05:07 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Oct 22 17:44:48 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 17:44:48 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Oct 22 08:11:33 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 08:11:33 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Oct 18 18:49:03 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 18:49:10 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Oct 18 09:50:51 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 09:50:51 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 16 16:47:35 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 16:47:35 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 16 07:42:02 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 07:42:09 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Oct 15 15:26:25 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 15:26:25 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Oct 15 14:47:24 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 14:47:24 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Oct 14 21:11:20 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 14 21:11:26 -0700 2009