This is the last volume of the work of Christopher Tolkien in which he has collected a great part of all that his father John Ronald Reuel Tolkien wrote of Middle-earth and Valinor. In the book is traced the devising of the history of the later ages in the north-west of Middle-earth after the Great Battle and the Fall of Morgoth.

Frontispiece – Dangweth Pengoloð (A manuscript page)

Foreword

Part One: The Prologues and Appendices to The Lord of the Rings

1. The Prologue

2. The Appendix on Languages
•Includes extracts from a letter to Leila Keene and Pat Kirke dated 3 August 1943 concerning the 'Common Speech'.

3. The Family Trees

4. The Calendars

5. The History of the Akallabêth

6. The Tale of Years of the Second Age

7. The Heirs of Elendil

8. The Tale of Years of the Third Age

9. The Making of Appendix A

Part Two: Late Writings

10. Of Dwarves and Men

11. The Shibboleth of Fëanor

12. The Problem of Ros

13. Last Writings
•Concerning Glorfindel, the Five Wizards and Círdan.

Part Three: Teachings of Pengoloð

14. Dangweth Pengoloð

15. Of Lembas

Part Four: Unfinished Tales

16. The New Shadow

17. Tal-Elmar

Index