Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose. In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. All he lacks in his plans for dominion is the One Ring, the ring that rules them all, which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. Or perhaps he was told tales by elves whose memories of the Elder Days have faded and so their stories were a bit off.Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power, the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. Perhaps Aelfwine was told the tales of the First Age, as we know them and recorded by Bilbo, by elves who never experienced the Second and Third. However, the stories in The Book of Lost Tales (collected and published in two volumes) are the prototypes or first drafts of what would be eventually published in The Silmarillion (Bilbo's translations). I do not think he is considered canon (insofar as there is an accepted canon), but I don't believe there's anything in the Thain's Book framing device to contradict his tale. Maybe you're thinking of Aelfwine the mariner, who in the 9th century sailed west and discovered Tol Eressea and was told stories from "the book of lost tales." This was the original framing narrative for the First Age stories, long before the writing of The Lord of the Rings and even The Hobbit. Scholars in Minas Tirith also made several contributions to the appendices, as did Sam's descendants.Ī copy containing all of this material was eventually sent back to the Shire from Minas Tirith in the Fourth Age and became known as the Thain's Book, preserved in Great Smials, discovered by archaeologists and translated into modern English by J.R.R. The chapters of The Lord of the Rings in which the hobbits were not present, along with some appendices, were added by Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli in Minas Tirith they also made unspecified corrections, especially to translations. The Silmarillion is Bilbo's translation, compilation and summation of the elvish legends found in Rivendell, titled "Translations of the Elvish" (essentially performing Christopher's role in editing his father's writing). There are other Tolkien-themed subreddits out there! Say hello to our friends in the following places:īilbo: There and Back Again (The Hobbit, with the original version of Riddles in the Dark)įrodo, Sam, Merry and Pippin: The Downfall of the Lord of the Rings and the Return of the King (all of The Lord of the Rings chapters in which the hobbits are present, and the poems in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil) We're looking at starting a wiki for these common ones. Try searching before posting a new thread: odds are we've already covered some of the "classic" questions ("Who is Tom Bombadil?", "What happened to the Blue Wizards?", "Why couldn't the Eagles just take the Ring?" etc). Please make use of r/TolkienBooks and r/TolkienArt for these. Posts/comments centring entirely on promotion will be removed. You can share your content, but in a discussion-based format. Links are allowed, so long as they contribute to the discussion. No posts that are simply links or title-only.
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