Good point Gwaihir and Eomer, perhaps I am overinterpreting the last sentence of 'Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age'.
I suppose we shall never know wat the new shadow is. Tolkien felt strongly, though, that the Fall of Sauron should end his Middle Earth tales, since he is the last true Dark Lord.
I suppose we'll never know how old Borlas knew of the beginning of time and new the real name of the first Dark Lord.
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