The Book Of Lost Tales, Part One
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The Book Of Lost Tales, Part One

Part One

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The Book Of Lost Tales, Part One

Part One

About this book

The Book of Lost Tales: Part One is the first of a two-volume set that contains the early myths and legends which led to the writing of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic tale of war, The Silmarillion.

The Book of Lost Tales was the first major work of imagination by J.R.R. Tolkien, begun in 1916-17 when he was twenty-five years old and left incomplete several years later. It stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-earth and Valinor, for these tales were the first form of the myths and legends that came to be called The Silmarillion. Embedded in English legend, they are set in the narrative frame of a great westward voyage over the Ocean by a mariner named Eriol (or Ælfwine) to Tol Eressea, the Lonely Isle, where elves dwelt; from him they learned their true history, the Lost Tales of Elfinesse.

In these Tales are found the earliest accounts and original ideas of Gods and Elves, Dwarves, Balrogs, and Orcs; of the Silmarils and the Two Trees of Valinor; of Nargothrond and Gondolin; of the geography and cosmology of Middle-earth.

Part One contains the tales of The Music of the Ainur, The Building of Valinor, The Chaining of Melko, The Coming of the Elves, and The Flight of the Noldoli, among others. Each tale is followed by a short essay by Christopher Tolkien, the author's son and literary executor.

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Information

Year
2012
Print ISBN
9780395354391
eBook ISBN
9780547952086

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Foreword
  5. I The Cottage of Lost Play
  6. II The Music of The Ainur
  7. III The Coming of The Valar and the Building of Valinor
  8. IV The Chaining of Melko
  9. V The Coming of The Elves and the Making Of Kôr
  10. VI The Theft of Melko and the Darkening Of Valinor
  11. VII The Flight of The Noldoli
  12. VIII The Tale of The Sun and Moon
  13. IX The Hiding of Valinor
  14. X Gilfanon’s Tale: The Travail of The Noldoli and the Coming of Mankind
  15. Appendix
  16. Short Glossary of Obsolete, Archaic, and Rare Words
  17. Searchable Terms
  18. Other Books by Christopher Tolkien
  19. Copyright
  20. Read More from J.R.R. Tolkien