CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

INTRODUCTION

A DICTIONARY OF SOURCES

CHARTS

A CHRONOLOGY OF THE UNDYING LANDS

A CHRONOLOGY OF THE MORTAL LANDS OF MIDDLE-EARTH

KELVAR: FAUNA OF ARDA

OLVAR: FLORA OF ARDA

DARK FORCES OF MIDDLE-EARTH

HISTORY OF SMÉAGOL–GOLLUM

BREEDS OF HOBBIT

DWARVES OF DURIN’S LINE

GENEALOGY OF THE RACES OF MEN

GENEALOGY OF THE RACES OF ELVES

THE RINGS OF POWER IN THE SECOND AND THIRD AGE

CELEBRIMBOR AND THE FORGING OF THE RINGS OF POWER

VALAR AND MAIAR AND THE NORSE GODS

VALAR AND MAIAR AND THE GRECO-ROMAN GODS

BATTLES

MAP OF THE BATTLE OF DAGORLAD

MAP OF THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES

MAP OF THE BATTLE OF THE HORNBURG

MAP OF THE MARCH OF THE ENTS ON ISENGARD

MAP OF THE SIEGE OF MINAS TIRITH

MAP OF THE BATTLE OF THE PELENNOR FIELDS

MAP OF THE BATTLE OF THE BLACK GATE

THREE PRIMARY RING LEGENDS

NORSE RING: Völsunga Saga

GERMAN RING: Nibelungenlied

WAGNER’S RING: The Ring of the Nibelung

TOLKIEN’S RING: The Lord of the Rings

INDEX OF SOURCES

INDEX

Mirkwood. In Tolkien’s legendarium, woods and forests are places of both beauty and peril.