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  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

  Thanks go first of all to Chris Smith at HarperCollins and to the Tolkien Trust for initiating this project and inviting me to work on it. I am especially grateful to Chris for his patience and help in overseeing and shaping the volume. My thanks to the Tolkien Trust for granting me permission to reproduce various pages from the author’s manuscripts and typescript held in their archive. Particular thanks go to Christopher Tolkien for his contribution and his advice and counsel, and to Baillie Tolkien for her extended help in communication and liaison. All three of them made my work with The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun a pleasure. Thank you, one and all.

  Works by J.R.R. Tolkien

  THE HOBBIT

  LEAF BY NIGGLE

  ON FAIRY-STORIES

  FARMER GILES OF HAM

  THE HOMECOMING OF BEORHTNOTH

  THE LORD OF THE RINGS

  THE ADVENTURES OF TOM BOMBADIL

  THE ROAD GOES EVER ON (WITH DONALD SWANN)

  SMITH OF WOOTTON MAJOR

  Works published posthumously

  SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT, PEARL AND SIR ORFEO*

  THE FATHER CHRISTMAS LETTERS

  THE SILMARILLION*

  PICTURES BY J.R.R. TOLKIEN*

  UNFINISHED TALES*

  THE LETTERS OF J.R.R. TOLKIEN*

  FINN AND HENGEST

  MR BLISS

  THE MONSTERS AND THE CRITICS & OTHER ESSAYS*

  ROVERANDOM

  THE CHILDREN OF HÚRIN*

  THE LEGEND OF SIGURD AND GUDRÚN*

  THE FALL OF ARTHUR*

  BEOWULF: A TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY*

  THE STORY OF KULLERVO

  The History of Middle-earth – by Christopher Tolkien

  I THE BOOK OF LOST TALES, PART ONE

  II THE BOOK OF LOST TALES, PART TWO

  III THE LAYS OF BELERIAND

  IV THE SHAPING OF MIDDLE-EARTH

  V THE LOST ROAD AND OTHER WRITINGS

  VI THE RETURN OF THE SHADOW

  VII THE TREASON OF ISENGARD

  VIII THE WAR OF THE RING

  IX SAURON DEFEATED

  X MORGOTH’S RING

  XI THE WAR OF THE JEWELS

  XII THE PEOPLES OF MIDDLE-EARTH

  * Edited by Christopher Tolkien

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