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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of the Rings, and will include the unpublished story The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.

THE HISTORY OF MIDDLE-EARTH.

THE BOOK OF LOST TALES, PART ONE.

THE BOOK OF LOST TALES, PART TWO.
III
THE LAYS OF BELERIAND.

IV
THE SHAPING OF MIDDLE-EARTH.

V

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