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     CommentAuthorDanieru
   • CommentTimeJun 25th 2006 edited

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   Tolkien started his sequel to The Lord of the Rings a number of times but never got very far. The links below are scanned images of the pages of the book.
   
   The story begins one hundred and five years after the fall of the Dark Tower and is set in Gondor. Tolkien wrote about the story:
   
   "I did begin a story placed about 100 years after the downfall of Sauron, but it proved both sinister and depressing. Since we are dealing with Men it is inevitable that we should be concerned with the most regrettable feature of their nature: their quick satiety with good. So that the people of Gondor in times of peace and justice and prosperity would become discontented and restless - while the dynasts descended from Aragorn would become just kings and governors - like Denethor or worse. I found that even so there was an outcrop of revolutionary plots, about a centre of secret Satanistic religion; while Gondorian boys were playing at being Orcs and going around doing damage. I could have written a 'thriller' about the plot and its discovery and overthrow - but it would be just that. Not worth doing." - link

   What stories would you kill to see a sequel to? Which cultural masterpiece so utterly encompasses your being that the mere thought of its universe being one of fiction sends you into convulsions of disbelief?
   
   For me Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy remains one of the most defining stories of my life. I am incapable of imagining my existence without it, due in no small part to the way it has been a part of my life since I was too young to remember. The idea that Arthur Dent and Marvin the Paranoid Android are mere fictional entities is hard enough for my mind to grasp; that they are somehow dead, that their world ended as the final chapter of Mostly Harmless drew to a close is an abomination I will never come to terms with. I long to ressurect the brain of Douglas Adams and peer inside at the imagined adventures he was destined never to write for his realer than real characters.
   
   Here is a glimpse into the conceived future of Tolkien's 'unfinished' universe. Who elses fogotten manuscript would you like to see taken down off history's dusty shelf and what would you expect to find inside it?