There is an inscription in the Tengwar characters in the first pages of every History of Middle-earth volume, written by Christopher Tolkien and describing the contents of the book. Some of these were used as titles for the following volumes. Tolkien also conceived titles for each of the six Books of TLotR, which he later discarded. The title The Return of the Shadow was a discarded title for The Fellowship of the Ring. It finishes with the Fellowship of the Ring entering the Mines of Moria. It encompasses TLotR's three initial stages of composition or, as Christopher Tolkien calls them, "phases", including what Tolkien later called "the crucial chapter" which sets up the central plot, " The Shadow of the Past". This book covers a larger part of the content of The Fellowship of the Ring. It is also the first volume of The History of The Lord of the Rings, which documents the writing process of The Lord of the Rings. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Return of the Shadow, published in 1988, is the sixth volume of Christopher Tolkien's 12-volume book series, The History of Middle-earth, in which he analyzes the unpublished manuscripts of J.R.R.
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