I had never heard of the House of Eorl nor of the Stewards of Gondor. Fangorn Forest was an unforeseen adventure. Tolkien laid aside The Silmarillion in 1937 the extension of the original 'mythology' into later Ages of the world had scarcely emerged, if it had emerged at all as he himself recorded, he knew nothing of the peoples and history of these Ages until he 'met them on the way': 'The Mines of Moria had been a mere name and of Lothlorien no word had reached my mortal ears until I came there.
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