* Quenta Silmarillion

After the downfall of the Dark Lord Morgoth at the end of the First Age ( which is described in the Quenta Silmarillion ) the Edain, those Men who had aided the Elves in their war against Melkor were given Númenor, a new small continent of their own, free from the evil and sadness of Middle-earth.

Valaquenta provides a middle-ground and link between Ainulindalë, which stands as Middle-earth's cosmogony or ' creation myth ', and Quenta Silmarillion, a collection of mythical histories wherein major events of Middle-earth find their first elaboration ( see The Silmarillion ).

To an extent, Valaquenta gives a meaning or a ' genealogy ', or both, to many scenes in the larger Quenta Silmarillion ; it is a virtual ' list of players ' for important parts of that ensuing drama, which drama itself ( as a collection of mythic tales ) provides a foundational background for the world that comes after ( in particular for those stories comprising the more widely known histories of Middle-earth, including The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings ).

These ordered descriptions eventually became Chapter 1 ( entitled Of the Valar ) for the Quenta Silmarillion ( or " The Silmarillion proper ".

) In revisions to the Quenta Silmarillion done in 1958, the list of the Valar was split off into a separately titled work.

Melian is much mentioned in the Quenta Silmarillion, but Olórin came openly into the histories only at a later date.

) As for the remaining two chief Maiar, Melian gains a great deal of power over Arda through conceiving and bearing a child by Elwë, and plays a real role in the Quenta Silmarillion, only dropping out when that history more or less ends upon the death of her husband.

A host of a thousand of them is mentioned in the Quenta Silmarillion, while at the storming of Gondolin Balrogs in the hundreds ride on the backs of the Dragons.

* The black metal band Summoning's latest album's name comes from the Oath of Fëanor and the lyrics are all about the Quenta Silmarillion

Christopher Tolkien removed the prophecy from The Silmarillion based on a 1958 version of the Valaquenta wherein his father wrote that none of Mandos ' dooms had declared whether the Marring of Arda would ever be repaired ( Christopher Tolkien adopted this passage and used it to close the Quenta Silmarillion ).

This fact occurred because the published Silmarillion uses later versions of the Quenta Silmarillion ( included in Morgoth's Ring and The Peoples of Middle-earth ).

Andreth prophesies of the Last Battle at the end of the Elder Days ( the sense in which the term ' Last Battle ' is used shortly afterwards in this text, p. 371 ); but in all the early texts ( the Quenta, IV. 160 ; the Annals of Beleriand, IV. 309, V. 144 ; the Quenta Silmarillion, V. 329 ) it was Eärendil who destroyed Ancalagon.

* Quenta Silmarillion

The presented version of the story was drawn by Christopher Tolkien primarily from The Grey Annals, although the Quenta Silmarillion was used as well.

* Quenta Silmarillion

* Quenta Silmarillion

The best known and most poetical account is in The Silmarillion, itself closely drawn from the earlier Quenta Silmarillion.

While Valaquenta is not a narrative, neither is the Quenta chapter Of Beleriand and its Realms, and Tolkien never seems to have considered presenting the latter as an independent section.

It was in the " Quenta Silmarillion " which was written in the 1930s, that Tolkien first used the term Dark-elves for those elves who were lost on their wanderings towards Valinor and did not see the light of the Two Trees.

A reworking of the earlier Annals of Valinor ( which was the working title of the manuscript until Tolkien changed it ) and connected closely with the narrative of the incomplete 1937 Quenta Silmarillion, The Annals of Aman moves from a compressed narrative style to a fuller accounting of the events of the chronology.

* Christopher Tolkien's explanation of how he, with the collaboration of future fantasy author Guy Gavriel Kay, constructed Chapter 22 of the Quenta Silmarillion, since none of his father's accounts of this episode were recent enough to fit the narrative in its final form.

The Quenta Lexicon from approximately 1915 defines Orc as meaning " monster, demon ", and the Gnomish Lexicon dated 1917, gives Orc a definition of " goblin ", alongside a definition of Gong as " one of a tribe of the Orcs, a goblin ".

It is only in the Annals versions and the earliest Quenta that Eönwë is stated to be leader, or captain, of the Host of the West and that Ingwion is captain of the Vanyar.

There are versions of events and aspects of the war in the Annals that are in conflict with those in Quenta Silmarillion beyond minor inconsistencies in nomenclature and dates.

The Silmarillion account closely follows the Quenta Silmarillion and is in agreement with it on the events of the war varying mostly in nomenclature.

Nearly contemporary to the Quenta Silmarillion are the Annals of Beleriand, a complementary, separate account with a different point of view.

Most notably, the Annals, in contrast to the Silmarillion and Quenta traditions, hold that Morgoth leaves Angband passing over Taur-na-Fuin to contest the passage of Sirion.

Tolkien also explores the motif of jewels that inspire intense greed that corrupts those who covet them in the Silmarillion, and there are connections between the words " Arkenstone " and " Silmaril " in Tolkien's invented etymologies.

* The following samples presumably predate the Lord of the Rings, but they were not explicitly dated: DTS 16, DTS 17, DTS 18 – Elvish Script Sample I, II, III, with parts of the English poems Errantry and Bombadil, first published in the Silmarillion Calendar 1978, later in Pictures by J. R. R. Tolkien, as well as DTS 23 – So Lúthien, a page of the English Lay of Leithan text facsimiled in The Lays of Beleriand: 299.

* J. R. R. Tolkien begins writing The Book of Lost Tales ( the first version of The Silmarillion ); thus Middle-earth is first chronicled this year.

In " Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age " ( in The Silmarillion ) and " The Istari " ( in Unfinished Tales ), Tolkien fleshes out the background and the history briefly tabulated by date in Appendix B of The Lord of the Rings.

Kay moved to Oxford in 1974 to assist Tolkien in the editing of The Silmarillion.

They appear in his books The Hobbit ( 1937 ), The Lord of the Rings ( 1954 – 55 ), and the posthumously published The Silmarillion ( 1977 ), Unfinished Tales ( 1980 ), and The History of Middle-earth series ( 1983 – 96 ), the last three edited by his son and literary executor Christopher Tolkien.

After preparing The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien returned again to the matter of the Silmarillion, in which he gave the Dwarves a creation myth.

The most Dwarf-centric story from The Book of Lost Tales, " The Nauglafring ", was not redrafted to fit with the later positive portrayal of the dwarves from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, nor other events in the Silmarillion, leading Christopher Tolkien significantly to rewrite it with input from Guy Gavriel Kay in preparation for publication.

Akallabêth is the fourth part of the fantasy work The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien.

Valaquenta ( Quenya for " Tale of the Valar ") is the second section of The Silmarillion, a collection of J. R. R. Tolkien's mythopoeic works, edited and published posthumously by his son Christopher Tolkien in 1977.

When Christopher Tolkien finally edited and published The Silmarillion in 1977, he left the chapter as a distinct section.

The Ainulindalë ( Quenya, " Music of the Ainur ") is the first part of the fantasy work The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien.

Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age is the fifth and last part of The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien.

These machines do not appear in the published Silmarillion, also edited by Christopher Tolkien, in which real dragons attack the city.

As Tolkien originally wrote it, The Silmarillion ends with a prophecy by Mandos about the Dagor Dagorath.

The published Silmarillion ends instead with the recounting of the voyage of Eärendil the Mariner, but this is due to an editorial decision by Christopher Tolkien.

Christopher Tolkien did not incorporate the major changes of the new version into The Silmarillion text, although he did take some phrasing and description from it.

The Elvish form Nírnaeth Arnoediad ( pronounced ; in this case the digraph oe denotes a rounded variant of the sound, more or less like German ' ö ') comes from Sindarin, one of the languages invented by Tolkien, and translates to Tears Uncountable: nîn means ' tear ( s )', in compound nírnaeth ' tears of woe '; prefix ar-bears the sense of ' beyond ' and the root nod-means ' count ', with o umlauted to œ by the following i. J. R. R. Tolkien often omitted the accent over the first vowel ( due to haste or neglect ), and this spelling was introduced into the published Silmarillion by Christopher Tolkien ; in editorial text within later writings, as The War of the Jewels, he used the accented form.