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Part 1 The History: Early Days of Elder Days, Rayner Unwin; TheDevelopment of Tolkien's Legendarium - Some Threads in the Tapestry ofMiddle-Earth, Christina Scull; "A Continuing and Evolving Creation" -Distractions in the Later History of Middle-Earth, Wayne G. Hammond; On theConstruction of "The Silmarillion", Charles E. Noad; The Literary Value of"The History of Middle-Earth", David Bratman. Part 2 The Languages: Gnomishis Sindarin - the Conceptual Evolution of an Elvish Language, ChristopherGilson; Certhas, Skirditalia, Fupark - a Feigned History of Runic Origins,Arden R. Smith; Three Elvish Verse Modes Ann-thennath, Minlamad Thent/Estentand Linnod, Patrick Wynne and Carl F. Hostetter. Part 3 The Cauldron and theCook: Tolkien's Lyric Poetry, Joe R. Christopher; Some of Tolkien'sNarrators, Paul Edmund Thomas; The Footsteps of AElfwine, Verlyn Flieger; TheLost Road, the Dark Tower and the Notion Club Papers - Tolkien and Lewis'sTime Travel Triad, John D. Ratefill; Gandalf and Odin, Marjorie Burns;Turin's Ofermod - an Old English Theme in the Development of Turin, RichardC. West; Appendix - Christopher Tolkien - a Bibliography, Douglas A. Anderson.