Sauron Deffated

Sauron Defeated is the ninth volume of The History of Middle-earth. In its first part Christopher Tolkien completes his study of how The Lord of the Rings took shape. It begins with Sam's rescue of Frodo from the Tower of Cirith Ungol and gives a very different version of the Scouring of the Shire. It ends with drafts of a previously unpublished Epilogue. Years after Bilbo and Frodo have left the Grey Havens, Sam tries to answer his children's questions.

The second part is an edition of The Notion Club Papers. These mysterious papers record the discussions of an Oxford club in the years 1986 and 1987. After a number of topics, the members turn to the legend of Atlantis. Some of them receive strange communications from the past, and the legend breaks violently into the north-west of Europe.