Unfinished Tales (full title Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth) is really a collection of stories and essays by J. R. R. Tolkien that had been by no means completed throughout his lifetime, but had been edited by his son Christopher Tolkien and published in 1980. Unlike The Silmarillion, for which the narrative fragments had been modified to connect into a consistent and coherent function, the Unfinished Tales are presented as Tolkien left them, with small much more than names changed (the author getting had a confusing habit of attempting out diverse names for a character when writing a draft). Therefore some of these are incomplete stories, when other people are collections of facts about Middle-earth. Every Single single single tale is followed by a lengthy series of notes explaining inconsistencies and obscure points. As with The Silmarillion, Christopher Tolkien edited and published Unfinished Tales prior to he had finished his study of the supplies in his father’s archive .