The Peoples of Middle-earth

Throughout this vast and intricate mythology, we find the chronology of Middle-earth's later Ages, the Hobbit genealogies, and the Western language or Common Speech.

These early essays show that Tolkien's fertile imagination was at work on Middle-earth's Second and Third Ages long before he explored them in the Appendices to The Lord of the Rings.

Here too are valuable writings from Tolkien's last years: 'The New Shadow,' in Gondor of the Fourth Age, and 'Tal-elmar,' the tale of the coming of the Nsmen-rean ships.