![]() Originally part of Gondor, it was never really settled by the Numenoreans or their Gondorian descendants.Ĭ. The first section is a description of the land between the North and South Kingdoms, called the Enedwaith or “middle region”. ![]() ![]() So, duly warned that we have gone over this material before, let’s look at it in the context of the military maneuvers that opened the War of the Ring in Rohan. Was CT right to do so, or should he have ‘edited’ it to avoid needless repetition? The editor also notes that the piece heavily repeats information covered in the ‘Cirion and Eorl’ essay elsewhere in Unfinished Tales, and in the LotR Appendices, but he decided to publish it in full.ī. ![]() Tolkien write a footnote two pages in length? CT decided to reset it as an ‘appendix’.Ī. I apologize for the delay in posting these latter discussion segments! In any case, in our reading and talking about “The Battles of the Fords of Isen”, we’ve now come to the second of Tolkien’s two ‘appendices’.Ĭhristopher Tolkien tells us that this was written as a long footnote to the text at the point where Grimbold and Elfhelm debate the correct position for defending the Fords against forces from Isengard. “The Fords were small protection without Isengard and still less against it.” **UT – The Battles of the Fords of Isen** 4. ![]()
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