Book twelve discusses the development of the Appendices to The Lord of the Rings, followed by some assorted essays from Tolkien's last years of life. Book ten and eleven discuss the Annals of Beleriand and Annals of Aman, works which were developed together with the Silmarillion tradition and which also served as source material for the published Silmarillion. Books six through nine discuss the development of The Lord of the Rings, book nine's second half discussing the story of NĂºmenor (the first versions of which were covered in Book Five). The discussion of the published book is deferred until book ten. The next three books follow the history of the emerging early mythology usually known as The Silmarillion. The first two books introduce readers to The Book of Lost Tales, a mythology for England from which Tolkien drew ideas that eventually became the 'Silmarillion' mythology. Christopher Tolkien thoroughly documents the history of the writing of the Middle-earth stories, with as much detail as his father documented the fictional history of Middle-earth itself. Tolkien's) that had been erased multiple times with many footnotes. These books are exceedingly detailed, to the point of documenting scraps of paper (of J.R.R. Most of the content consists of earlier versions of already published works by Tolkien, while other portions are completely new material.
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