Below is a summary of the contents in the twelve volumes of The History of Middle-earth series. It is a part from the essay "Unfinished Tales and the History of Middle-earth: A Lifetime of Imagination" by Elizabeth A. Whittingham, from book A Companion to J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). More @Wikipedia
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