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few, mostly aspects of the progressive movement of names, and are
merely referred forward to the place where they appear in original
writing. Towards the end A V z becomes scarcely more than a fair copy of
A V i, but I give the text in full in order to provide within the same covers
complete texts of the Annals and Quenta 'traditions' as they were when
The Lord of the Rings was begun.
AV 2 is without any preamble concerning authorship, but there is a
title-page comprising this and the closely similar later version of the
Annals of Beleriand (AB 2):

The Silmarillion
2. Annals of Valinor
3. Annals of Beleriand

With this compare the title-pages given on p. 202, where 'The Sil-
marillion' is the comprehensive title of the tripartite (or larger) work.

SILMARILLION.
II.
ANNALS OF VALINOR.

Here begin the Annals of Valinor and speak of the foundation of
the World.
At the beginning Iluvatar, that is Allfather, made all things.
Afterwards the Valar, or Powers, came into the world. These
are nine: Manwe, Ulmo, Aule, Orome, Tulkas, Osse, Mandos,
Lorien, and Melko. Of these Manwe and Melko were most puiss-
ant, and were brethren; and Manwe is lord of the Valar, and holy.
But Melko turned to lust and pride, and to violence and evil, and his
name is accursed, and is not uttered, but he is called Morgoth.
Orome, Tulkas, Osse, and Lorien were younger in the thought of
Iluvatar, ere the world's devising, than the other five; and Orome
was born of Yavanna, who is after named, but he is not Aule's son.
The queens of the Valar were Varda, Manwe's spouse, and
Yavanna, whom Aule espoused after in the world, in Valinor;
Vana the fair was the wife of Orome; and Nessa the sister of
Orome was Tulkas' wife; and Uinen, the lady of the seas, was wife
of Osse; Vaire the weaver dwelt with Mandos, and Este the pale
with Lorien. No spouse hath Ulmo or Melko. No lord hath
Nienna the mournful, queen of shadows, Manwe's sister and
Melko's.
With these great ones came many lesser spirits, beings of their
own kind but of smaller might; these are the Vanimor, the
Beautiful. And with them also were later numbered their children,
begotten in the world, but of divine race, who were many and fair;
these are the Valarindi.

Of the beginning of the reckoning of Time and the foundation
of Valinor.
Time was not measured by the Valar, until the building of