Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth

The history

• Rayner Unwin — Early Days of Elder Days
• Christina Scull — The Development of Tolkien's Legendarium: Some Threads in the Tapestry of Middle-earth
• Wayne G. Hammond — 'A Continuing and Evolving Creation': Distractions in the Later History of Middle-earth
• Charles Noad — On the Construction of The Silmarillion
• David Bratman — The Literary Value of The History of Middle-earth

The languages

• Christopher Gilson — Gnomish Is Sindarin: The Conceptual Evolution of an Elvish Language
• Arden R. Smith — Certhas, Skirditaila, Futhark: A Feigned History of Runic Origins
• Patrick Wynne and Carl F. Hostetter — Three Elvish Verse Modes: Ann-thennath, Minlamad thent / estent, and Linnod

The cauldron and the cook

• Joe R. Christopher — Tolkien's Lyric Poetry
• Paul Edmund Thomas — Some of Tolkien's Narrators
• Verlyn Flieger — The Footsteps of Ælfwine
• John D. Rateliff — The Lost Road, The Dark Tower, and The Notion Club Papers: Tolkien and Lewis's Time Travel Triad
• Marjorie Burns — Gandalf and Odin
• Richard C. West — Túrin's Ofermod: An Old English Theme in the Development of the Story of Túrin

Appendix

• Douglas A. Anderson — Christopher Tolkien: A Bibliography

J. S. Ryan, reviewing the book for VII, called it a "luminous companion" to the 12 volumes of The History of Middle-earth, and "clearly indispensable".[2] Ryan stated that it "pays a much merited tribute"[2] to Christopher Tolkien's six decades or more of work on his father's writings, indeed from his childhood as one of the original audience for The Hobbit. Ryan describes the 14 essays as "carefully argued", noting among other things Bratman's description of the 4 styles Tolkien used in the Legendarium as "Annalistic, Antique, Appendical, and Philosophical".[2]

• Tolkien's Legendarium