Foreword

Foreword
Chapter Information
Number	0
Location	Arda
Date	Written in the Seventh Age
Next	Prologue

"This tale grew in the telling, until it became a history of the Great War of the Ring and included many glimpses of the yet more ancient history that preceded it."

—First words of The Lord of the Rings

The Foreword is the foreword of J.R.R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings akin in style to the prefatory note of The Hobbit.

Appearances and mentions

By type

Characters	Species and creatures	Locations	Factions, groups and titles
Events	Objects and artifacts	Miscellanea

Characters

Balin (mentioned only) Christopher Tolkien (mentioned only) Durin (mentioned only) Elrond (mentioned only) Frodo Baggins Gandalf (mentioned only) J.R.R. Tolkien Nancy Smith (mentioned only) Sandyman (mentioned only) Saruman Sauron Théoden

Species and creatures

Dwarves (mentioned only) Hobbits Orcs (mentioned only)

Locations

Eä Arda Middle-earth West-lands Beleriand Echoriad Vale of Tumladen Amon Gwared Gondolin (mentioned only) Eriador The Shire Rhovanion Gondor Anórien Great River Lothlórien Misty Mountains Moria Chamber of Mazarbul Balin's tomb Mordor Plateau of Gorgoroth Barad-dûr Rohan Westfold Harrowdale South Africa United Kingdom England

Factions, groups and titles

High-elves (mentioned only) Necromancer (mentioned only) Ruler of Middle-earth Royal Air Force

Events

Elder Days (mentioned only) Third Age (mentioned only) Great War of the Ring (mentioned only) World War Two (mentioned only) 1914 1918 1936 1937 1939 1941 1944 1949

Objects and artifacts

Great Rings One Ring Red Book of Westmarch The Hobbit (mentioned only) The Lord of the Rings Foreword Prologue Book One The Shadow of the Past Book Three Book Four Book Five I III Book Six The Scouring of the Shire

Miscellanea

Elvish Ring-lore