J. R. R. TOLKIEN
MORGOTH'S RING
THE HISTORY OF MIDDLE-EARTH
Volume 10
The Later Silmarillion
Part One
The Legends of Aman
Edited by Christopher Tolkien
HarperCollins Publishers, 1994
First published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Publishers 1993
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Òåêñò îòñêàíèðîâàí ñ îðèãèíàëà è ïåðåâåäåí â òåêñòîâóþ ôîðìó. ß ñòàðàëñÿ èñïðàâèòü âñå îøèáêè, âîçíèêàþùèå ïðè èñïîëüçîâàíèè òåõíîëîãèè OCR, íî ïîëíîé ãàðàíòèè â îòñóòñòâèè òàêîâûõ äàòü íå ìîãó.
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The Silmarillion, foundation of the imagined world of J. R. R. Tolkien, was as is well known never completed, never brought to a final form after the writing of The Lord of the Rings: the work is known from the text published posthumously in 1977, a construction from the narratives that existed, not a completion.
In Morgoth's Ring, the first of two companion volumes, Christopher Tolkien describes and documents the later history of The Silmarillion, from the time when his father turned again to 'the Matter of the Elder Days' after The Lord of the Rings was at last achieved. The text of the Annals of Aman, the 'Blessed Land' in the far West, is given in full; while in writings hitherto unknown is seen the nature of the problems that J. R. R. Tolkien explored in his later years, as new and radical ideas, portending upheaval in the old narratives, emerged at the heart of the mythology, and as the destinies of Men and Elves, mortals and immortals, became of central significance, together with a vastly enlarged perception of the evil of Melkor, the Shadow upon Arda. Among these writings a central place is given to the Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth, in which the Elvish King of Nargothrond debates with the 'wise-woman' Andreth the injustice of human mortality.
The second part of this history of the later Silmarillion will be concerned with developments in the legends of Beleriand after the completion of The Lord of the Rings, and will include the unpublished story The Wanderings of Hurin.
CONTENTS
Foreword
page
ix
PART ONE
AINULINDALË 1
PART TWO
THE ANNALS OF AMAN
45
PART THREE
THE LATER QUENTA SILMARILLION
I. THE FIRST PHASE
141
1. Of theValar
143
2. Of Valinor and the Two Trees
152
3. Of the Coming of the Elves
158
4. Of Thingol and Melian
171
5. Of Eldanor and the Princes of the Eldalië
173
6. Of the Silmarils and the Darkening of Valinor
184
7. Of the Flight of the Noldor
193
8. Of the Sun and Moon and the Hiding of Valinor
197
II. THE SECOND PHASE
199
TheValaquenta 199
The Earliest Version of the Story of Finwë and Míriel 205
Laws and Customs among the Eldar
207
Later versions of the Story of Finwë and Míriel
254
Of Fëanor and the Unchaining of Melkor
271
Of the Silmarils and the Unrest of the Noldor
273
Of the Darkening of Valinor
282
Of the Rape of the Silmarils
292
Of the Thieves' Quarrel
295
PART FOUR
ATHRABETH FINROD AH ANDRETH
301
PART FIVE
MYTHS TRANSFORMED
367
Appendix: Synopsis of the Texts
432
Index 434
FOREWORD
The Quenta Silmarillion, with the Ainulindalë, the Annals of Valinor, and the Annals of Beleriand, as they stood when my father began The Lord of the Rings at the end of 1937, were published six years ago in The Lost Road and Other Writings. That was the first great break in the continuous development of The Silmarillion from its origins in The Book of Lost Tales; but while one may indeed regret that matters fell out as they did just at that time, when the Quenta Silmarillion was in sight of the end, it was not in itself disastrous. Although, as will be seen in Part One of this book, a potentially destructive doubt had emerged before my father finished work on The Lord of the Rings, nonetheless in the years that immediately followed its completion he embarked on an ambitious remaking and enlargement of all the Matter of the Elder Days, without departure from the essentials of the original structure.
