The Problem of Ros

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The Peoples of Middle-earth
  1. The Prologue
  2. The Appendix on Languages
  3. The Family Trees
  4. The Calendars
  5. The History of the Akallabêth
  6. The Tale of Years of the Second Age
  7. The Heirs of Elendil
  8. The Tale of Years of the Third Age
  9. The Making of Appendix A
  10. Of Dwarves and Men
  11. The Shibboleth of Fëanor
  12. The Problem of Ros
  13. Last Writings
  14. Dangweth Pengoloð
  15. Of Lembas
  16. The New Shadow
  17. Tal-Elmar

The Problem of Ros is the twelfth chapter of The Peoples of Middle-earth.

The chapter is dedicated to a 1968 linguistic essay by J.R.R. Tolkien, concerning the word ros, as seen in the name Cair Andros.

While writing it, Tolkien realised that what he is explaining had already a solution in the Appendices, and rejected "most of it".