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Foreword
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Introduction
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The First Age
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Introduction
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Valinor
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Beleriand and the Lands to the North
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The Great March
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The Flight of the Noldor
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Realms--Before the Great Defeat
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Menegroth, the Thousand Caves
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Nargothrond
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Gondolin
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Thangorodrim and Angband
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Coming of Men
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Travels of Beren and Luthien
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Travels of Turin and Nienor
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The Battles of Beleriand
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The First Battle
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The Second Battle
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The Third Battle
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The Fourth Battle
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The Fifth Battle
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The Great Battle
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The Second Age
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Introduction
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Refugee Relocation
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Advent of the Dark Years
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Numenor
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Voyages of the Numenoreans
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The Realms in Exile
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The Last Alliance
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The Third Age
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Introduction
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Kingdoms of the Dunedain (1050)
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Battles (1200-1634)
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The Great Plague (1636-37)
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Wainriders and Angmar (1851-1975)
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Deepening Difficulties (2000-2940)
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Migrations of Hobbits
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Migrations of Dwarves
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Regional Maps
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Introduction
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The Shire
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Eriador
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Wilderland
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The Misty Mountains
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The Brown Lands, the Wold, the Downs, and the Emyn Muil
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The White Mountains
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Mordor (and Adjacent Lands)
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The Hobbit
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Introduction
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Over Hill and Under Hill: Goblin-town
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Out of the Frying Pan
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Beorn's Wide Wooden Halls
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Attercop, Attercop
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Thranduil's Caverns
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Lake-town
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Lonely Mountain
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The Battle of Five Armies
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The Lord of the Rings
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Introduction
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Hobbiton and Bag End
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Along the Brandywine
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On the Barrow-downs
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At the Prancing Pony
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Weathertop
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Rivendell
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Moria
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Lothlorien
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Helm's Deep
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Isengard
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Edoras
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Dunharrow
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Minas Tirith
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The Morannon
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Henneth Annun
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The Path to Cirith Ungol
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The Tower of Cirith Ungol
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Mount Doom
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The Battle of the Hornburg (March 3-4, 3019)
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Battles in the North (March 11-30, 3019)
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The Battle of the Pelennor Fields (March 15, 3019)
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The Battle of the Morannon (March 25, 3019)
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The Battle of Bywater (November 3, 3019)
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Pathways
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Bag End to Rivendell
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Rivendell to Lorien
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Rauros to Dunharrow
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Dunharrow to the Morannon
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The Journey of Frodo and Sam
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The Road Home
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The Fourth Age
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Thematic Maps
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Introduction
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Landforms
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Climate
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Vegetation
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Population
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Languages
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Appendix
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Notes
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Selected References
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Index of Place Names
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Index of Selected Place Names for The History of Middle-earth
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