Shelfology Book Pairing

The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Three

by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Discusses the Battle of Helm's Deep.

by J. Tolkien

I will begin this book by returning to the quotation that I used to open Beren and Lúthien: a letter written by my father in 1964, in which he said that out of my head he wrote The Fall of Gondolin during sick-leave from the army in 1917, and the original version of Beren and Lúthien in the same year.