This is the seventh volume of The History of Middle-earth. The story reaches the beginning of The Lord of the Rings and ends at the point where the author halte... » 

This is the seventh volume of The History of Middle-earth. The story reaches the beginning of The Lord of the Rings and ends at the point where the author halted in the story as the Company of the Ring, still lacking Legolas and Gimli, stood before the tomb of Balin in the Mines of Moria. «