An ExplanationThe Lord of the Rings is not history, and as readers of that great work are aware, the title of its last chapter is "The Grey Havens," not the "Gray Havens." Nonetheless, the world of Middle Earth that J.R.R. Tolkien imagined for us is so detailed that it is difficult to think of it as pure fiction. Because the events of the War of the Ring have something of the density of factual history, they invite the sort of stretching and speculation that factual history invites. A major genre has grown up in fiction that treats historical scenarios that did not happen. That is what I have done in this novella with the climax of The Lord of the Rings.
John J. Reilly
March 15, 2006
To begin
click on the image
of my 1969 paperback
edition of
The Fellowship of the Ring:
A DisclaimerThe work to which this page links, The Gray Havens, as contained on the pages with URLs tg1.htm through tgh10.htm, is not a part of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings; neither does it purport to be a part of that work or a sequel to it. The Gray Havens does not include copyrighted or trademarked material from The Lord of the Rings or from any other work. The Gray Havens is a new work that alludes to a small set of the ideas and characters that the genius of Professor Tolkien has made the common possession of mankind in a very real and legally binding sense.
.
|| A review of Peter Jackson's film of The Return of the King || The Middle-Earth Tours (Graphics!)||
Copyright 2006