The New Shadow

The New Shadow was an incomplete sequel (approximately 13 pages) to The Lord of the Rings that J.R.R. Tolkien quickly abandoned, but may have come back to. It is set during the reign of Eldarion, Aragorn's son. Tolkien originally set the story approximately 105 years after the fall of the Barad-dûr, but decided in 1972 to set the story in the year 220 of the Fourth Age. The story revolves around a cult known as the Dark Tree, and two characters named Saelon and Borlas.
==Content==
The only published versions of the story make up the sixteenth chapter of Christopher Tolkien's The Peoples of Middle-earth, in Part Four. The following chapter is Tal-Elmar, another unfinished story of his father's.
In May of 1964, Tolkien commented on The New Shadow:
:"I did begin a story placed about 100 years after the Downfall, but it proved both sinister and depressing. Since we are dealing with Men, it is inevitable that we should be concerned with the most regrettable feature of their nature: their quick satiety with good. So that the people of Gondor in times of peace, justice and prosperity, would become discontented and restless — while the dynasts descended from Aragorn would become just kings and governors — like Denethor or worse. I found that even so early there was an outcrop of revolutionary plots, about a centre of secret Satanistic religion; while Gondorian boys were playing at being Orcs and going around doing damage. I could have written a 'thriller' about the plot and its discovery and overthrow — but it would have been just that. Not worth doing."
:―from The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter to Colin Bailey.
On June 6 of 1972, he changed the dating of the story to be 100 years after Aragorn's death:
"I have written nothing beyond the first few years of the Fourth Age. (Except the beginning of a tale supposed to refer to the end of the reign of Eldarion about 100 years after the death of Aragorn. Then I of course discovered that the King's Peace would contain no tales worth recounting; and his wars would have little interest after the overthrow of Sauron; but that almost certainly a restlessness would appear about then, owing to the (it seems) inevitable boredom of Men with the good: there would be secret societies practising dark cults, and 'orc-cults' among adolescents.)"
:-from The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien Letter 338.
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Die Nuwe Skaduwee
Albanian 	Hija e Re
Amharic 	ዘ ኒው ጥላ
Arabic 	الظل جديد
Armenian 	Նոր ստվերային
Azerbaijani 	Yeni kölgə
Belarusian Cyrillic	Новы Цень
Bengali 	নতুন শ্যাডো
Bosnian 	Nove sjene
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Новата сянка
Burmese 	အသစ်ရိပ်
Cambodian 	ស្រមោលថ្មី
Catalan 	La Nova Ombra
Cebuano 	Ang Bag-ong Anino
Chinese 	新的影子
Cornish 	A Skeus Nowydh ?
Corsican 	Lu Novu Ignat
Croatian 	Nove sjene
Czech 	Nový stín
Danish 	Den Nye Skygge
Dutch 	De Nieuwe Schaduw
Esperanto 	La Nova Ombro
Filipino 	Ang Bagong anino
Finnish 	Uusi varjo
French 	La Nouvelle Ombre
German 	Der Neue Schatten
Greek 	Η Νέα Σκιά
Gujarati 	નવી છાયા
Haitian Creole 	Nouvo lonbwaj
Hausa 	Sabuwar inuwa
Hebrew 	הצל החדש
Hindi 	नई छाया
Hmong 	Tus duab ntxoov ntxoo tshiab
Hungarian 	Az új Árnyék
Icelandic 	Hin Nýja Skuggi
Indonesian 	Bayangan baru
Irish Gaelic 	An Scáth Nua
Italian 	La Nuova Ombra
Japanese 	新しい影
Kannada 	ಹೊಸ ಛಾಯಾ
Kazakh Cyrillic 	Жаңа көлеңкелі
Korean 	새로운 그림자
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	Болумушту көлөкө
Latvian 	Jauna ēna
Lithuanian 	Naujas šešėlis
Luxembourgish 	Déi Nei Schied
Macedonian Cyrillic	Новиот сенка
Malay 	Bayang-bayang baru
Malayalam 	ന്യൂ ഷാഡോ
Marathi 	नवी छाया
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Шинэ сүүдэр
Nepalese 	नयाँ छाया
Norwegian 	Den nye Skyggen
Pashto 	د نوي نومول
Persian 	جدید سایه
Polish 	Nowy Cień
Portuguese 	A Nova Sombra
Punjabi 	ਨ੍ਯੂ ਸ਼ੈਡੋ
Romanian 	Noua umbră
Russian 	Новая Тень
Scottish Gaelic 	Tha Sgàil Ùr
Serbian 	Нова сенка (Cyrillic) Nova senka (Latin)
Sindhi 	سنڌ جي نئين پاڇو
Sinhalese 	ඡායා නව ?
Slovak 	Nový tieň
Slovenian 	Nova senca
Somalian 	Hooskii Cusub
Spanish 	La Nueva Sombra
Swahili 	Kivuli Mpya
Swedish 	Den Nya Skuggan
Tajik Cyrillic 	Дар сояи нав
Tamil 	புதிய நிழல்
Telugu 	న్యూ షాడో
Turkish 	Yeni gölge
Turkmen 	Täze Kolege
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Нова Тінь
Urdu 	نیا شیڈو
Welsh 	Y Cysgodol Newydd
Yiddish 	די ניו שאָטן
Yoruba 	Awọn Titun Ojiji
==References==
es:La Nueva Sombra
it:La Nuova Ombra
ru:Новая Тень
pl:Nowy Cień
Category:Chapters of The Peoples of Middle-earth
Category:Primary literature
Category:Disputed canonicity
Category:Middle-earth source literature