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.

Tolkien's Orc origin ideas were published posthumously in The Silmarillion, with other versions of events appearing later in The History of Middle Earth.

The Monsters and the Critics is a collection of J. R. R. Tolkien's scholarly linguistic essays edited by his son Christopher and published posthumously in 1983.

In 2009, seventy years after its composition, HarperCollins posthumously published Tolkien's verse retelling of part of the Codex Regius, which was entitled, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun.

Tolkien's Elves are still very much " human ," and although they can be killed by injury or die of grief, and they do age ( besides " emotional ageing ," the males grow beards upon reaching a " third cycle of life ," though these beards never reach the glory of an adolescent dwarf woman ), dead Elves are normally re-embodied after an indefinite period of time — according to Tolkien's Letters and other posthumously published writings.

In the posthumously published The Silmarillion, Elves are mentioned as the " firstborn ", the first Children of Iluvatar, the God of Tolkien's legendarium.

* 1937 – J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.

*" The Quest of Erebor ", Tolkien's retconned backstory for the novel published in Unfinished Tales

The final development of the history and geographical nature of Gondor took place around 1970, in the last years of Tolkien's life, when he invented justifications for the place-names and wrote full narratives for the stories of Isildur's death and of the battles with the Wainriders and the Balchoth ( published in Unfinished Tales ).

The essay represents the last of Tolkien's writing regarding the Dwarves and was published in volume 12 of The History of Middle-earth in 1996.

In the earliest versions of Tolkien's mythology ( see: The History of Middle-earth ), the First Kindred of the Eldar were called the Teleri, while the Third Kindred, the elves known as Teleri in the published version of The Silmarillion, were called Solosimpi (' shoreland pipers ').

In the early versions of Tolkien's mythology ( see: The History of Middle-earth ), they were known as Solosimpi (" Pipers of the Shores "), while the name Teleri was given to the clan of Elves known in the published version of The Silmarillion as Vanyar.

Therefore, MERP represents an interpretation of Middle-earth that does not directly involve the players in the continuity of Tolkien's published works.

Several of the Westron forms given above were not published in Tolkien's lifetime.

The earliest appearance of goblins in Tolkien's writings is the 1915 poem Goblin Feet, also his first published work, which appeared in the annual volume of Oxford Poetry published by Blackwells.

Túrin Turambar is the primary protagonist and tragic hero of the novel The Children of Húrin, published after Tolkien's death by his son Christopher Tolkien and drawing from many of the above sources to finally present a complete narrative.

Several elements in B5 are similar to elements in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel ( first published in three volumes ), The Lord of the Rings.

* Pauline Baynes, original illustrator for the Narnia books and maps ; she also illustrated some of J. R. R. Tolkien's books, and drew two poster maps of Middle-earth ( but not the ones published in the books ).

Michael D. C. Drout's " Tolkien's Prose Style and its Literary and Rhetorical Effects ", featured in the academic journal Tolkien Studies, published by West Virginia University Press, analyzes Tolkien's writing style and deduces influence from and parallels with King Lear.

Tolkien's death, his son Christopher Tolkien found an unpolished translation of Sir Orfeo and published it in edited form with Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl.

The early United States editions of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit were published by the Houghton Mifflin Company of Boston and New York.

The Silmarillion, edited by Tolkien's son Christopher from his father's manuscripts and published in 1977 five years after Tolkien's death, contains a part Akallabeth.

In author J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional world of Arda, the Black Númenóreans are mentioned briefly at several points in both his published and unpublished writings, as one of many peoples and races inhabiting his Middle-Earth setting.

It was published in 1981, after Tolkien's major works The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.

Tolkien's conviction that the poem dates to the 8th century is defended by Tom Shippey ( 2007 ).

In Tolkien's The Adventures of Tom Bombadil the first poem tells the tale of her " capture " by Tom Bombadil.

Among the more notable adaptations of this text are Richard Wagner's tetralogy of music dramas Der Ring des Nibelungen, Ernest Reyer's opera Sigurd, William Morris's epic poem The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs, and J. R. R. Tolkien's The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrún.

The volume includes what W. H. Auden considered Tolkien's best poem, The Sea-Bell, subtitled Frodos Dreme.

After Tolkien's death in 1973 Hill showed the poem to Donald Swann, who liked the poem so much that he set it to music and included it in the second edition of The Road Goes Ever On in 1978.

In Miguel de Cervantes ' Don Quixote, the ideal beauty is Dulcinea whose " hairs are gold "; in Milton's poem Paradise Lost the noble and innocent Adam and Eve have " golden tresses ", the protagonist-womanizer in Guy de Maupassant's novel Bel Ami who " recalled the hero of the popular romances " has " slightly reddish chestnut blond hair ", while near the end of J. R. R. Tolkien's work The Lord of the Rings, the especially favorable year following the War of the Ring was signified in the Shire by an exceptional number of blonde-haired children.

Fíriel is also the name of the central character in " The Last Ship ", the last poem in Tolkien's poetry collection The Adventures of Tom Bombadil.

These papers, which make a number of comments on Lewis ' Space Trilogy, remind one of C. S. Lewis ' commentary to Tolkien's poem The Lay of Leithian, in which Lewis created a fictional history of scholarship of the poem and even referred to other manuscript tradition to recommend changes to the poem.

Tom Shippey cites this 1923 poem and its mate, " The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon " ( also from 1923, also subsequently included in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil ) as typical examples of Tolkien's working strategy for reconstructing philological information about sources now lost.

* Oliphaunt a poem in Tolkien's Lord of the Rings

Blackwell ’ s began the careers of many writers: in 1915 J. R. R. Tolkien's first poem, " Goblin's Feet ", was published.

The Hobbit makes a warning against repeating the tragedies of World War I, and Tolkien's attitude as a veteran may well be summed up by Bilbo's comment: " Victory after all, I suppose!

* In J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings it is said in the second verse of Bilbo's Song of Eärendil, regarding the appearance of Eärendil ; " Of adamant his helmet tall ".

In fact Tolkien's The Hobbit ( 1937 ) features an incredible number of similarities beyond those mere aspects above, for instance, the two swords Orcrist and Glamdring correspond to the story, as well, Bilbo's Mithril shirt also stands in for the chain mail shirt of gold.

Tolkien's description of the physical layout of the city of Minas Tirith itself is followed relatively faithfully in Peter Jackson's film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, ( the city also has a cameo in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, when Gandalf goes there to discern the identity of Bilbo's ring, and it also can be seen in the distance for a few seconds when Faramir takes Frodo, Sam, and Gollum to Osgiliath in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers ) Jackson's version interprets the top of the rock as flattened and paved, and also the location for the coronation of Aragorn.

Further posthumous publications ( with text more closely following Tolkien's original ) include Unfinished Tales, The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien, Bilbo's Last Song, and The Children of Húrin.

* Dagor Dagorath, or the Last Battle, in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium