Characterization Marches On: Christopher notes that the prior accounts of Isildur's death at the Gladden Fields were very brief, but portrayed it as him being so assured after Sauron's death that he didn't bother to set a watch and was caught by surprise-suggesting Tolkien saw Isildur then as being complacent or drunk on victory. Batman Gambit: It's clarified that Sauron released Gollum because he sensed that Gollum would go searching for the Ring himself, and he hoped that Gollum would unwittingly lead him to it. Because she was raised alternately by two people who hated each other, her own eventual marriage was troubled and loveless. This bleeds down to their daughter Ancalimë's life. 
Awful Wedded Life: Aldarion and Erendis end up so unhappy that Erendis abandons the marriage entirely to live in the country. Anti-True Sight: There is a brief reference to 'shrouding' objects from the vision of a palantír. She instead becomes angry that he's been lying to her, but she eventually marries him anyway so she can keep the throne away from her cousin (as, had she not had a heir, the throne would pass to her cousin, who she hated). Altar Diplomacy: Ancalimë initially likes the shepherd boy Mámandil, but he scotches it when she demurs from his proposal and he reveals that he's actually the son of a nobleman to make himself more suitable. Tolkien referred to such fighting women as "Amazonian." Two cultures of Men are known to have trained women to fight, the People of Haleth and the Wainriders. In some versions Galadriel wielded a sword at the Kinslaying at Alqualondë on the part of the Teleri, her mother's people. 
The following tropes can be found within: Much more material of the same type would later be collected and published, more systematically, in The History of Middle-earth.
They can be entertaining in their own right and give interesting details like the political organization of Gondor and Rohan, details about the ancient realm of Númenor, and a rough draft of The Children of Húrin, among other things. The stories take various formats: Some are pseudo-history written in a scholarly manner while others are actual narratives. It was compiled and edited by the author's son Christopher Tolkien, who had also assembled The Silmarillion from such material (with the help of Guy Gavriel Kay). Tolkien, or Unfinished Tales for short, was the first posthumous publication of unfinished and fragmentary material that forms part of the Backstory of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and Middle-earth.
Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth by J.
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