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'Notes on motives in the Silmarillion' (pp. 394 ff.), in which he
contrasted the nature of Sauron's power, concentrated in the
One Ring, with that of Morgoth, enormously greater, but dis-
persed or disseminated into the very matter of Arda: 'the whole
of Middle-earth was Morgoth's Ring'.
Thus this book and (as I hope) its successor attempt to
document two radically distinct 'phases': that following the
completion of The Lord of the Rings, and that following its
publication. For a number of reasons, however, I have found it
more satisfactory in presentation to divide the material, not
according to these two 'phases', but by separating the narrative
into two parts. While this division is artificial, I have been able
to include in this book a high proportion of all that my father
wrote in the years after The Lord of the Rings was finished,
both in narrative and discussion (to which must be added of
course all the material in the volume of letters), concerning the
Elder Days before the Hiding of Valinor. The next volume will
contain, according to my intention, all or at any rate most of the
original texts relating to the legends of Beleriand and the War
of the Jewels, including the full text of the Grey Annals and a
major narrative remaining unpublished and unknown, The
Wanderings of Hurin.
The publication of the texts in this book makes it possible to
relate, if not at all points or in every detail, the first eleven
chapters (with the exception of Chapter II 'Of Aule and
Yavanna' and Chapter X 'Of the Sindar') of the published
Silmarillion to their sources. This is not the purpose of the book,
and I have not discussed the construction of the published text
at large; I have presented the material in terms of its evolution
from earlier forms, and in those parts that concern the revision
and rewriting of the Quenta Silmarillion I have retained the
paragraph numbers from the pre-Lord of the Rings text given in
Volume V, so that comparison is made simple. But the (inevit-
ably complex) documentation of the revised Quenta Silmaril-
lion is intended to show clearly its very curious relationship to
the Annals of Aman, which was a major consideration in the
formation of the text in the first part of the published work.
I am much indebted to Mr Charles Noad, who has once again
undertaken the onerous task of reading the text in proof
independently and checking all references and citations with
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scrupulous care, to its great improvement.
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