Sauron Defeated

Sauron Defeated is the ninth volume of The History of Middle-earth, compiled by Christopher Tolkien and first published in 1992. It is the fourth part of The History of The Lord of the Rings, but is also divided into three parts of its own: Part One, "The End of the Third Age", concerns J.R.R. Tolkien's development of the story of The Return of the King. Part Two concerns "The Notion Club Papers", and Part Three contains the earlier versions of The Drowning of Anadûnê, which in finality became the tale of the Downfall of Númenor.

The inscription of the book reads: "In this book is traced first the story of the destruction of the One Ring and the Downfall of Sauron at the End of the Third Age."

Table of Contents[]

• Part One: The End of the Third Age
• Part Two: The Notion Club Papers
  • Introduction
  • Foreword and List of Members
  • The Notion Club Papers Part One
  • The Notion Club Papers Part Two
  • Major Divergences in Earlier Versions of Part Two
    • (i) The earlier versions of Night 66
    • (ii) The original version of Lowdham's 'Fragments'
    • (iii) The earlier versions of Lowdham's 'Fragments' in Adûnaic
    • (iv) Earlier versions of Edwin Lowdham's Old English text
    • (v) The page preserved from Edwin Lowdham's manuscript written in Númenórean script

• Part Three: The Drowning of Anadûnê
  • (i) The third version of The Fall of Númenor
  • (ii) The original text of The Drowning of Anadûnê
  • (iii) The second text of The Drowning of Anadûnê
  • (iv) The final form of The Drowning of Anadûnê
  • (v) The theory of the work
  • (vi) Lowdham's Report on the Adûnaic Language
• Index

Editions[]

This volume was published first in 1992 by HarperCollins (Britain) and by Houghton Mifflin (U.S.); both hardcovers A year later HarperCollins published a paperback edition, and then a second time in 2002.

In 2010, HarperCollins reissued a second hardcover.

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