There is an inscription in Fëanorian characters ( Tengwar, an alphabet Tolkien devised for the High-Elves) on the title page of each of the volumes of History of Middle-earth, written by Christopher Tolkien and describing the contents of the book. Three of the titles of the volumes of The History of The Lord of the Rings were also used as book titles for the seven-volume edition of The Lord of the Rings: The Treason of Isengard for Book 3, The War of the Ring for Book 5, and The End of the Third Age for Book 6.
The title The Return of the Shadow was a discarded title for Volume 1. The titles proposed by Tolkien for the six books were: Book 1, The First Journey or The Ring Sets Out Book 2, The Journey of the Nine Companions or The Ring Goes South Book 3, The Treason of Isengard Book 4, The Journey of the Ring-Bearers or The Ring Goes East Book 5, The War of the Ring and Book 6, The End of the Third Age.
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Tolkien conceived the latter as a single volume comprising six "books" plus extensive appendices, but the original publisher split the work into three, publishing two books per volume with the appendices included in the third. The titles of the volumes derive from discarded titles for the separate books of The Lord of the Rings. Some information concerning the appendices and a soon-abandoned sequel to the novel can also be found in volume 12, The Peoples of Middle-earth. When The Treason of Isengard was first published in paperback Volume 8 was to be called Sauron Defeated and was to be the last volume. The original idea was to release The History of The Lord of the Rings in three volumes, not four. Some paperback editions of the fourth volume, retitled The End of the Third Age, include only the materials for The Lord of the Rings. It also includes The Notion Club Papers (a time-travel story related to Númenor), a draft of the Drowning of Anadûnê, and the only extant account of Tolkien's fictional language Adûnaic. The last volume finishes the story and features the rejected Epilogue, in which Sam answers his children's questions. The third volume, The War of the Ring continues to the opening of the Black Gate. The second volume continues to the meeting with Théoden king of Rohan, and includes the invention and evolution of Lothlórien and Galadriel plans for Frodo and Sam's progress to Mordor the invention and evolution of Treebeard, the Ents, and Fangorn discussions of the original map of Middle-earth at the end of the Third Age and of the evolution of Cirth in an appendix. It finishes with the Fellowship of the Ring entering the Mines of Moria. The first volume of The History encompasses three initial stages of composition or, as Christopher Tolkien calls them, "phases", including what Tolkien later called "the crucial chapter" which sets up the central plot, " The Shadow of the Past". (HoME 7) The Treason of Isengard (1989).(HoME 6) The Return of the Shadow (1988).Further information: Tolkien's legendarium
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