文档介绍：The Lords of the Rings
by J. R. R. Tolkien
Contents
Foreword 1
Prologue 1
1. Concerning Hobaster Samwise 1
Book V 1
Chapter 1 Minas Tirith 1
Chapter 2 The Passing of the Grey Company 1
Chapter 3 The Muster of Rohan 1
Chapter 4 The Siege of Gondor 1
Chapter 5 The Ride of the Rohirrim 1
Chapter 6 The Battle of the Pelennor Fields 1
Chapter 7 The Pyre of Denethor 1
Chapter 8 The Houses of Healing 1
Chapter 9 The Last Debate 1
Chapter 10 The Black Gate Opens 1
Book VI 1
Chapter 1 The Tower of Cirith Ungol 1
Chapter 2 The Land of Shadow 1
Chapter 3 Mount Doom 1
Chapter 4 The Field of Cormallen 1
Chapter 5 The Steward and the King 1
Chapter 6 Many Partings 1
Chapter 7 Homeward Bound 1
Chapter 8 The Scouring of the Shire 1
Chapter 9 The Grey Havens 1
Foreword
This tale grew in the telling, until it became a history of the Great
War of the Ring and included many glimpses of the yet more ancient history
that preceded it. It was begun soon after The Hobbit was written and before
its publication in 1937; but I did not go on with this sequel, for I wished
first to complete and set in order the mythology and legends of the Elder
Days, which had then been taking shape for some years. I desired to do this
for my own satisfaction, and I had little hope that other people would be
interested in this work, especially since it was primarily linguistic in
inspiration and was begun in order to provide the necessary background of
'history' for Elvish tongues.
When those whose advice and opinion I sought corrected little hope to
no hope, I went back to the sequel, encouraged by requests from readers for
more information concerning hobbits and their adventures. But the story was
drawn irresistibly towards the older world, and became an account, as it
were, of its end and passing aw