In The Return of the Shadow (the abandoned title of the first volume of The Lord of the Rings) we see how Bilbos magic ring evolved into the supremely dangerous Ruling Ring of the Dark Lord and the precise, and astonishingly unforeseen, moment when a Black Rider first rode in to the Shire. The Return of the Shadow is the story of the first part of the history of the creation of The Lord of the Rings, a fascinating study of Tolkiens great masterpiece, from its inception to the end of the first volume, The Fellowship of the Ring.
Tolkiens enthralling account of the writing of the Book of the Century which contains many additional scenes and includes the unpublished Epilogue in its entirety. Book Synopsis The first part of The History of The Lord of the Rings, The Return Of The Shadow is J.R.R. The Return of the Shadow is illustrated with reproductions of the first maps and notable pages from the earliest manuscripts. Tolkien halted in the story for a long time, as the Company of the Ring, still lacking Legolas and Gimli, stood before the tomb of Balin in the Mines of Moria. The story in this book ends at the point where J.R.R. The hobbits, Frodos companions, undergo intricate permutations of name and personality, and other major figures appear in strange modes: a sinister Treebeard, in league with the Enemy, a ferocious and malevolent Farmer Maggot. The character of the hobbit called Trotter (afterwards Strider or Aragorn) is developed while his indentity remains an absolute puzzle, and the suspicion only very slowly bes certainty that he must after all be a Man. The enlargement of Bilbos magic ring into the supremely potent and dangerous Ruling Ring of the Dark Lord is traced and the precise moment is seen when, in an astonishing and unforeseen leap in the earliest narrative, a Black Rider first rode into the Shire, his significance still unknown. Tolkien for long believed would be a far shorter book, a sequel to The Hobbit. In The Return of the Shadow (an abandoned title for the first volume) Christopher Tolkien describes, with full citation of the earliest notes, outline plans, and narrative drafts, the intricate evolution of The Fellowship of the Ring and the gradual emergence of the conceptions that transformed what J.R.R. About the Book In this sixth volume of The History of Middle-earth the story reaches The Lord of the Rings.
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