+I can't say yet, because I haven't received the galleys. In manuscript it runs to around 70 pages single-spaced, but I don't know how that will translate into TS' rather smaller page size. Suffice it to say it won't be a hefty tome, though somewhat thicker than a pamphlet.

W C Hicklin wrote:

+I can't say yet, because I haven't received the galleys. In manuscript it runs to around 70 pages single-spaced, but I don't know how that will translate into TS' rather smaller page size. Suffice it to say it won't be a hefty tome, though somewhat thicker than a pamphlet.

Thanks for the information. Looking forward to the release.

We can now preorder the Vol. 19, but no sign of the supplement :
https://wvupressonline.com/journals/tolkien_studies

About the order, the wvup page was recently updated.

In spring/summer 2022, a special supplemental issue to volume 19 will be published: J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Chronology of The Lord of the Rings," edited, with introduction, notes, and commentary by William Cloud Hicklin; a preface by William Fliss; and a special introduction by the editors. The supplement will be published in paperback and online on Project MUSE. Individuals who wish to receive the supplement in print should purchase a print subscription to volume 19 (which can be preordered as indicated below). Upon publication, the online supplement will be available for purchase on Project MUSE.

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The digital version is now available at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/48264 for $20. Many institutions subscribe to the database, so you might easily get a free one if you are in a university or library.
The paper has 131 pages. After introduction, it's 55 pages of transcription of the 3rd synoptic time-scheme (MSS 4/2/18, a 14 page file, you can find pictures of 5 pages of it in RC, Maker, Voyage en Terre du Milieu, The Invented Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien) and commentary. Then 60-page-discussion of the development of the three synoptic time-schemes.
Two new images are published: page 9 of an older time-scheme (MSS-4/2/17/13a), and a chart illustrating Lórien Time (MSS-4/2/19/7a, partially shown on the cover of Tolkien Studies 19)
I think it doesn't provide more "new info" about the lore besides those already noted in RC: Uglúk caught Gollum, Háma suggested Éomer to disobey the King, Shagrat killed by Sauron etc. But it's a must read if you are interested in the chronology details, especially its evolution. You can find how Tolkien fixed Dec 25 & Mar 25 as the two major dates deliberately, used 1941-2 moon phase and 1944 moon rise&set time as reference, linked Great Darkness to the 1942 Mar 3 lunar eclipse.

zionius wrote:

The digital version is now available at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/48264 for $20. Many institutions subscribe to the database, so you might easily get a free one if you are in a university or library.
The paper has 131 pages. After introduction, it's 55 pages of transcription of the 3rd synoptic time-scheme (MSS 4/2/18, a 14 page file, you can find pictures of 5 pages of it in RC, Maker, Voyage en Terre du Milieu, The Invented Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien) and commentary. Then 60-page-discussion of the development of the three synoptic time-schemes.
Two new images are published: page 9 of an older time-scheme (MSS-4/2/17/13a), and a chart illustrating Lórien Time (MSS-4/2/19/7a, partially shown on the cover of Tolkien Studies 19)
I think it doesn't provide more "new info" about the lore besides those already noted in RC: Uglúk caught Gollum, Háma suggested Éomer to disobey the King, Shagrat killed by Sauron etc. But it's a must read if you are interested in the chronology details, especially its evolution. You can find how Tolkien fixed Dec 25 & Mar 25 as the two major dates deliberately, used 1941-2 moon phase and 1944 moon rise&set time as reference, linked Great Darkness to the 1942 Mar 3 lunar eclipse.

Very useful info, thank you muchly.

This is part of the Introduction from the Project Muse site

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/861624

INTRODUCTION
Tolkien wrote to Naomi Mitchison in 1954, “I wisely started with a map, and made the story fit (generally with meticulous care for distances). The other way about lands one in confusions and impossibilities” (Letters 177). He could with equal truth have said the same with regard to a time-scheme or chronology, a map of time. Keeping events, and the reader’s perspective, firmly placed within time is a fundamental aspect of Tolkien’s literary technique in The Lord of the Rings. “The reader is kept constantly aware of the pattern of time which moves events and within which they move. . . . Sunrise, moonrise, star time are meticulously noted and tracked. Breakfast-time, teatime, and dinnertime are all noted and longed for. This is all part of an attention to and concern with time” (Flieger 21, 23).

Cartography and chronology are also intertwined, especially in a story about a journey: the characters move through distance in time, through time over distance. Ensuring that the interrelationship remains plausible and in keeping with the reader’s experience of the primary world is part of the craft of bestowing upon a secondary world that essential quality which Tolkien called “the inner consistency of reality” (OFS 59). Tolkien in his sub-creative romance paid scrupulous attention to time, so it was essential for him to map the chronology of his tale, especially once it split into multiple parallel narrative threads, although in the process he still did not entirely avoid landing in “confusions and impossibilities.”

My intention originally was to produce a standalone annotated edition of Tolkien’s final complete time-scheme, as a document of tremendous significance for any interested in the story-internal chronology, but as time went on it became clear, or at least it seemed so for me, that the ultimate Chronology was the product of a lengthy evolution, one which was bound up with the development of the story itself, and to present it bare and without context would be somewhat like hanging a Renaissance altarpiece in a gallery, divorced from the location for which it was created and the surroundings which gave it meaning. Therefore, I have followed the Chronology [End Page 23] with a commentary, rather longer than I had planned, relating the hitherto largely untold story1 of how Tolkien developed his map of time.

He began with linear time-schemes, listing all of each day’s events in a single sequence. As the story grew in narrative complexity, however, these proved inadequate and therefore, as he began what is now Book V in October 1944,2 confusions and impossibilities which had crept into the text led Tolkien to make a time-scheme in parallel columns, which Christopher Tolkien has designated S as the first of the “synoptic” time-schemes, allowing Tolkien to synchronize the day-byday actions of his various groups of characters.

This first “synoptic” chronology petered out as Book V developed during 1946 and was replaced by another, which I will refer to as S2, which remained the working chronology through at least April 1948 and almost certainly until after the completion of the story that summer, although the time-scheme itself breaks off after the Battle of the Pelennor Fields. S2 then served as the vehicle for Tolkien’s conversion of the calendar, which had been the Gregorian3 throughout the writing of at least the first five Books, to the new Shire-reckoning.

The Chronology presented here, S3, was the third and last of these “synoptic” schemes, written most probably toward the end of the first phase of work on the Appendices circa 1949–50, definitely after the first draft and in all likelihood after the first typescript of the narrative had been completed. Even at this time the chronology was not settled, and Tolkien altered things to his satisfaction in both the creation of, and later...

Can someone tell me if the tables starting with a number in brackets are the verso of the preceding pages or the continuation of the table that was editorially splitted in two because of the size, please?

The tables were each editorially split onto two pages. The versos each have different page numbers.