The Peoples of Middle-earth (ISBN 978-0-261-10348-1) is the twelfth volume of The History of Middle-earth, edited by Christopher Tolkien from the unpublished manuscripts of his father J.R.R. Tolkien. It is the last book of the series that Christopher Tolkien composed; it was followed in 2002, however, by The History of Middle-earth: Index. The significant features of this volume are: