“Due to the current circumstances, I decided to try to publish the completed work in an abridged version. It included translations of manuscript texts, materials from Mr. Readman, E. Aitil, J. Gordon and others, and the general outline of J. R. R. Tolkien’s epic. All this was done in a form that would be accessible to readers all over the world and would reflect the essence of the most ancient sacred texts of the Indo-European peoples - the form of an ancient epic that was not read, but... chanted, which J. R. R. may have originally planned to do . Tolkien..." (Author)