The Lost Road and Other Writings

This is volume 5 of the History of Middle Earth (HoME) Series. "The Lost Road" is Tolkien's first writings of the tales of Númenor. There are only four chapters along with some fragments. It was the product of a challenge Tolkien made with C.S. Lewis. Lewis was to write a space travel novel and Tolkien was to write a time travel novel. Lewis' novel became "Out of the Silent Planet". Tolkien's book floundered, as did many of the works he started, but the idea was that a philologist and his son travel back through time to an Atlantis-like society. Instead of being finished and published in its own right, story lived on in the tales of Númenor, the kings of which Aragorn is descended from.

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