Does any of Toklien’s other writing take place after “The Return of the King,” including the Christopher stuff?
There are some discussions of Tolkien’s thinking about the future and a possible further set of novels in Christophers stuff, but Tolkien never wrote any of it (it was to take place sometime after Aragorn’s death, as his kingdom began to fall apart). The appendix of RoTK includes some material about stuff after RotK ends, but mostly not in story form, just a timeline.
Actually, Tolkien did begin work on a story that took place about 100 years into the fourth age. He only got a few pages into it, but what he did do is reproduced in one of the HOMES. Someone has been kind enough to scan an excerpt and post it online. You can read it here.
And there is some stuff in the appendices.
Brian
I keep meaning to post a thread myself, but this is a fine enough place to ask: did Tolkien ever write on the dwarves returning to Moria? Once Gandalf defeated the Balrog, it seems the remaining orcs would be (relatively) easier to clean out.
Freejooky - To elaborate, Just in case you came to Lord of the Rings through the movies & haven’t read the books: Yes, the Appendices do tell what happened to each of the main characters, as well as characters mentioned only in the book and not the movie.
Sam becomes mayor & has oodles of children; one of his daughters becomes a lady-in-waiting to Queen Arwen and one of his daughters marries one of Pippin’s sons.
Affter careers as prominent citizens Pippin and Merry leave for a last visit to Rohan and Gondor. When they die they are buried near King Elessar [Aragorn]
Gimli & Legolas along with some of their kin help to restore Minas Tirith & Ithilien.
Gimli visits Fangorn; Legolas visits the glittering caves. Finally Legolas builds a boat and takes Gimli along with him to Elvenhome.
We learn the name of Aragorn & Arwen’s son but not their daughter’s name; we learn that Aragorn & Eomer fight together in other wars as time goes on.
King Eomer marries a relative of Prince Imrahil (ruler of an area of Gondor).
Faramir & Eowyn marry and rule in Ithilien.
The landlord of The Prancing Pony is surprised to find Strider has become King.
(oops - in book, not appendix. I really wanted to see that scene in the film.)
So, we do find out a lot. It’s just told in brief snippets, not as a story.
But there’s still a lot we don’t know -
What did Elrond’s sons do once their father left?
Did the ents ever find the entwives?
Did Ghan-buri-ghan & his wild men have any other contact with the outside world?
What did Shelob eat once the orcs were chased away?
And who the @#$% is Bombadil, anyway? What happens to him?
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Eventually they went off to Valinor as well.
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Not in the stories. As to if they ever did, well, who knows?
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Probably.
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Most likely, herself. All of the Brood of Ungoliant shared in the great hunger of their mother. But beware… Shelob was a vicious olf hag, and who’se to say she isn’t hidden up the moutains today… :eek:
Banbadil is simply Bombadil, no one else and nothing mroe or less. He’s just a spirit of this world, at peace with himself and his land, and nothing besides. He presumably lives on happily singing in his vale until Arda’s time is done.
Or else he’s a sorry hippie stoner, who’ll be busted as soon as Aragorn restore order to the land, & the Narcotics Squad gets wind of him.
And yes, I read Bored Of The Rings. 
ISTR reading somewhere that Tolkien said that the Ents never found the Entwives, and they eventually died out. Sorry, no cite.
Cite? I used to believe this too, but having been challenged myself in the past over this assertion, I found that the evidence is inconclusive as to their ultimate decisions.
This site provides the facts. 
Thanks, but I’d not rely too heavily on that particular JRRT site (even tho it supports my assertion). It doesn’t really delve too deep into the sources, and omits info from HOMES. It doesn’t even mention that Elladan and Elrohir lived with Grandpa Celeborn in Rivendell after the end of the third age!! :eek:
Annals of Arda is pretty good as far as scholarly sites go. It digs a lot deeper than the more popular Encyclopedia of Arda.
It’s from one of his letters to someone asking that same question. I recall it as well.