In the chapter about the Istari (wizards) in Unfinished Tales, it is alluded that Manwë, the King of the Valar, will only descend ‘the Mountain’ (the hill in Valinor where the Valar live ...

J.R.R. Tolkien: Six thousand years before the Fellowship of the Ring, long before anyone had even seen a Hobbit, the elves and men of Middle-earth quaked at the power ...

Versions of the tale already have appeared in "The Silmarillion," "Unfinished Tales" and as narrative poems or prose sections of the "History of Middle-earth" series. But they were truncated and ...

The new book tells the tale of Tuor, a man living in an age where the world is dominated by the dark lord Melko—known in other Tolkien books as Morgoth. Harper Collins Though J.R.R. Tolkien ...

Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth. ... When Gondolin’s location was betrayed to Morgoth, the vengeful god sent an army of orcs, balrogs, and dragons to siege the city.

The tales do not, but this account of the war against Morgoth does. If you want to find out what happens next, you’ll have to pick up The Silmarillion , or The Lord of the Rings , or just keep ...