Tolkien was planning to write a fourth novel series "The Lord of the Rings", there is even a rough draft of 13 pages Bashny.Net

But he abandoned the idei



J. R. R. Tolkien addition to two of its most popular products of "The Hobbit" and "Lord of the Rings" still a lot of things written - mostly stories about the world of Middle-earth. However, after his death his son Christopher Tolkien published many of his notes and unfinished works, among which are initiated by the fourth cycle of the novel "Lord of the Rings».

For information about this product can be found in some of Tolkien's published letters, in which the author expressed his dissatisfaction with the ideas, calling them "a thriller." The manuscript of the fourth volume represented only a rough draft of the project, is very incomplete - only 13 pages without any editing.



The main plot of the fourth novel was set out in these 13 pages, and in some writings of Tolkien. The novel is about 100 years after the events of "Return of the King." None of the characters in the original trilogy in the manuscript there, although the ability to enter the mind of Gandalf the writer seems to come.

The manuscript referred to a young man named Borlas living after the fall of Sauron. One of the main themes of the novel, according to Tolkien, would the fact that men are often too deeply immersed in the world, and comfortably, and seeming as if the safety of their lulls. In the fourth novel is, the boys playing in the orcs, and ultimately this game turns into a kind of "Satanic" cult, which creates the main conflict of the plot.

Given that we have only 13 pages of drafts, it is difficult to understand exactly how and where to begin the story of Tolkien intended. He said in the letter that gave up the idea to write this novel, as he came out very much "sinister and depressing" but the plot does not leave the reader no hope for the best and nothing on inspiration.

via factroom.ru