LotR --- Appendix A: I, (i) - (iii) -- Númenor - Heirs of Isildur

[drigel]

Yea Heren, at the time the appendixes were all we had. This is where the Depth dwelt. Lots of referring to maps. It is interesting to see where the author was going. Like much of our own history, a lot of it was lists of Important names, and maps. genious effect

things that stuck on me from A,I, II,III

the importance of Umbar, and how Sauron remembered the place where his humility was brought to him.

the history of Arnor and the Witchking. Also the involvement of the Shire folk. The "carts without wheels" is funny. It is interesting that, despite the detail, there is little mention of these folk in LOTR, as their southern cousins got a whole chapter in RoTK (well distant cousins to the Wild men).

the northern palantiri

: no likeness remained in Middle-earth of Laurelin the Golden

I wonder why this was?

At the Grey Havens dwelt Cirdan the Shipwright, and some say he dwells there still, until the Last Ship sets sail into the West.

extremely open ended statement