The Lord of the Rings Index

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The Lord of the Rings Index was published in The Return of the King. The first index was compiled by Nancy Smith (who was instructed to ignore the Appendices).

Overview

• I Songs and Verses
  • (a) [Titles]
  • (b) First Lines
• II Persons, Beasts and Monsters
• III Places
• IV Things

Revisions

• (Ballantine Books, 1965), with an index to songs and verses.
• (Allen & Unwin, 1966), emendations by J.R.R. Tolkien, adding some notes, 'translations', and some citations to the Appendices. In America it was published by the Houghton Mifflin Co., 1967, but not by Ballantine Books).
• (2005) a new, enlarged index by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull, preserving Tolkien's added notes.

See also

• "Unfinished index" (manuscript)
• Letter to Oscar Morland (letter)