JRR Tolkien created incredible stories about Middle-earth, but he also discarded some that could have served as sequels to The Lord of the Rings

The second season of The rings of power has come to an end, clarifying some mysteries and generating others. Although the Amazon Prime Video series has freely adapted what was written by JRR Tolkien, reading everything the author wrote The Lord of the Rings, we can know what will happen next, since the events of the Second Yes Third Age of Middle Earth They are very well documented. Curiously, much of this information became available to the public after his death Tolkien.

Christopher Tolkienson of the author of the hobbithe published many of Arda’s writings that his father left after his death. Although much of it was quite developed, other writings were nothing more than drafts, so it was quite a complicated task to compile and organize everything, but it was worth it, because thanks to this the work could get started. The Silmarillion, unfinished stories or The sons of Húrin. As we say, Christopher He did a great job picking up everything his father did, although it is true that some decisions made in his hard work have been criticized over time and have generated debates.

Thanks to these things we learned much more MorgothArda and what happened in the Middle Earth after the defeat of Sauron. I like the characters Gimli, Legolas or Aragorn he ended up having a prosperous and long life, especially the latter, since he succeeded Gondor rediscover the ancient splendor of Númenor. After his death, his son Eldarion took the throne and this is where all the information we had about the Middle EarthWell, apparently Tolkien He didn’t write anything else. But this last thing is not entirely true, the English writer made some attempts to continue the story after the events of the lord of the rings.

The new shadow

The story takes place almost 200 years after the fall of the Sauron In the Fourth agewhen the elves abandoned the Middle Earthstarting the age of men. This story occurs in the last years of the son’s rule Aragorn, Eldarion.

Tolkien barely wrote about the story, but it seems that, during the great period of peace and prosperity that the people of Gondorshe would become dissatisfied and restless. The Gondorian children seem to have begun to play being Orcsdealing damage as these dark creatures would or attacking trees. On the other hand, it seems that the descendants of Aragorn They became kings and bureaucratic rulers worse than him. Denethor. But the most dangerous thing was that there was a secret sect called the Dark treeof which Tolkien claimed it was like a satanic cult, so it’s possible they worshiped Morgoth or Sauron.

The protagonist of the story is Tasselsson of Beregondoone of the few men who remembers the terrible The War of the Ring. The story begins with him talking to a young man named Saelon talking about those mentioned in the previous paragraph and what the man who leads the dark sect is called. Here we arethat in Quenya (elf language), means “Dark Lord”. All this causes great consternation in Borlas.

Saelon, who seems to know more than he is saying, invites the protagonist to a secret meeting that will take place that same night and in which both will have to appear dressed completely in black. Although he is reluctant at first, Tassels accept the invitation.

This is all the information available about this story that occurs in Fourth age. Tolkienafter some revisions of the story over the course of several years, he discarded it because it did not go beyond “discovery and reduction,” as he stated in one of his letters (no. 256). The teacher thought that the story of the discovery of a cult and its dismantling did not have enough epicness and grandeur to be part of his stories about the cult. Middle Earth.

Although the writer did not consider this work worthy Ardafor many followers of his work it is a shame that the author of the hobbit I wouldn’t want to continue this story, nor would I leave more work on its world. In his time, Editions Minotaur published this incomplete story in Los pueblos de la Middle Earththe last of the thirteen books that make up the collection The History of Middle Earth. The publisher is currently publishing the anthology and is on the second book, hopefully in the future they will get to the last book and we will be able to enjoy this story in Spanish again.