One for Sorrow

It's funny you mention the Appendices--I was thinking of that above. As I said, I hate epilogues in general, and so I didn't want one in Tolkien either. But it fits clearly in what he's doing throughout, writing a history. It comes from the same place as the rest of the books. Here I couldn't figure out why we'd even need to know any of these things. It seemed to mostly be about naming the children, who all seemed to be ready to be in a sitcom.