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APPENDIX A

ANNALS OF THE KINGS AND RULERS

Concerning the sources for most of the matter contained in the following Appendices,
especially A to D, see the note at the end of the Prologue. The section A III, _Durin's Folk_, was
probably derived from Gimli the Dwarf, who maintained his friendship with Peregrin and Meriadoc
and met them again many times in Gondor and Rohan.
The legends, histories, and lore to be found in the sources are very extensive. Only
selections from them, in most places much abridged, are here presented. Their principal purpose is
to illustrate the War of the Ring and its origins, and to fill up some of the gaps in the main
story. The ancient legends of the First Age, in which Bilbo's chief interest lay, are very briefly
referred to, since they concern the ancestry of Elrond and the Númenorean kings and chieftains.



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Actual extracts from longer annals and tales are placed within quotation marks. Insertions of
later date are enclosed in brackets. Notes within quotation marks are found in the sources. Others
are editorial.
The dates given are those of the Third Age, unless they are marked S.A. (Second Age) or F.A.
(Fourth Age). The Third Age was held to have ended when the Three Rings passed away in September
3021, but for the purposes of records in Gondor F.A.I began on March 25, 3021. On the equation of
the dating of Gondor and Shire Reckoning see Vols. I 23 and III 486. In lists the dates following
the names of kings and rulers are the dates of their deaths, if only one date is given.The sign †
indicates a premature death, in battle or otherwise, though an annal of the event is not always
included.


I
THE NUMENOREAN KINGS


(i)
NÚMENOR

Fëanor was the greatest of the Eldar in arts and lore, but also the proudest and most
selfwilled. He wrought the Three Jewels, the _Silmarilli_, and filled them with the radiance of
the Two Trees, Telperion and Laurelin, that gave light to the land of the Valar. The Jewels were
coveted by Morgoth the Enemy, who stole them and, after destroying the Trees, took them to Middle-
earth, and guarded them in his great fortress of Thangorodrim. Against the will of the Valar
Fëanor forsook the Blessed Realm and went in exile to Middle-earth, leading with him a great part
of his people; for in his pride he purposed to recover the Jewels from Morgoth by force.
Thereafter followed the hopeless war of the Eldar and the Edain against Thangorodrim, in which
they were at last utterly defeated. The Edain (Atani) were three peoples of Men who, coming first