Publishing
The Corsairs of Umbar were first mentioned in The Return of the King when this third volume of The Lord of the Rings was published in 1955. The Appendix A to The Lord of the Rings, "Annals of the Kings and Rulers", also contains an overview of the fictional history of Gondor including the constant strife with Umbar until the end of the Third Age. The Silmarillion, edited by Tolkien's son Christopher from his father's manuscripts and published in 1977 five years after Tolkien's death, contains a part Akallabeth. This expands further on the events of the Second and Third Age that had been mentioned before in the Appendix to The Lord of the Rings. Umbar appeared on the bottom edge of the maps found in earlier editions of The Lord of the Rings, but it is absent from modern editions, which maps a slightly smaller area of Middle-earth.
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