LOTR's Dunlendings were on the wrong side of the War of the Ring, but unlike Sauron’s more devoted servants, they still got a ...

The New Shadow,’ which Tolkien left unfinished at his death, has a chilling warning about the dangers of historical amnesia and peacetime rot.

Among its themes of wartime valor, mercy, trauma and self-sacrifice ... the dark lord Sauron has fallen and Aragorn has become king of a restored Gondor). It takes place around a century ...