The History of The Lord of the Rings "The Lord of the Rings". J. R. R. Tolkien conceived the latter as a single volume comprising six "books" plus extensive appendices, but the original publisher split the work into three, publishing two books per volume with the appendices included in the third. The titles proposed by Tolkien for the six books were: Book I, "The First Journey" or "The Ring Sets Out"; Book II, "The Journey of the Nine Companions" or "The Ring Goes South"; Book III, "The Treason of Isengard"; Book IV, "The Journey of the Ring-Bearers" or "The Ring Goes East"; Book V, "The War of the
Translations of The Lord of the Rings and slightly edited Tolkien's typescript, and re-published it under the title of Nomenclature of The Lord of the Rings in their book "". Tolkien uses the abbreviations "CS" for "Common Speech, in original text represented by English", and "LT" for the target language of the translation. His approach is the prescription that if in doubt, a proper name should not be altered but left as it appears in the English original: The names in English form, such as "Dead Marshes", should be translated straightforwardly, while the names in Elvish should be left unchanged. The difficult cases are those names where