spiral staircase

October 14, 2024
Simon Cook

Seeing Stones

  1. One Wednesday in 1936
  2. A Time Machine in the Garden

Elf-tower

  1. Frodo’s Dreams
  2. Seeing Stones in Dark Towers
  3. Crossroads
  4. Thálatta! Thálatta!

Anglo-Saxon Tower

  1. Passing Ships
  2. Straight Road
  3. Spiral Staircase
  4. Doom and Ascent

A Hobbit’s Guide to Stairs

  1. Two Towers
  2. Ring and Stone
  3. Stone and Book
  4. Fairy-tale Turn
  5. Sea-road

Epilogue. Undertowers

Appendix. Tolkien’s Friends

Earlier versions of many chapters were originally published on the Silmarillion Writers Guild, and can be accessed via the newsletter column A Sense of History.