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Full text of all the twelve volumes without diacritics
I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII (in HTML with diacritics).
The Book of Lost Tales I-II |
The Book of Lost Tales was the first major work of imagination by J.R.R.Tolkien, begun in 1916-1917 when he was 25 years old, and left incomplete several years later. It stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-Earth and Valinor, for the Lost Tales were the first form of the myths and legends that came to be called The Silmarillion. |
| First volume | |
| Foreword | |
| I The Cottage of Lost Play | |
| II The Music of the Ainur | |
| III The coming of Valar and the building of Valinor | |
| IV The Chaining of Melko | |
| V The coming of the Elves and the making of Kor | |
| VI The theft of Melko and the darkening of Valinor | |
| VII The Flight of the Noldoli | |
| VIII The tale of Sun and Moon | |
| IX The Hiding of Valinor | |
| X Gilfanon's tale: the travail of the Noldoli and the coming of Mankind | |
| Second volume | |
| I The tale of Tinuviel | |
| II Turambar and the Foaloke | |
| III The Fall of Gondolin | |
| IV Nauglafring | |
| V The Tale of Earendel | |
| VI The History of Eriol or AElfwine and the end of the tales | |
The Lays of Beleriand |
This book contains the two major poems by J.R.R.Tolkien concerned with the legends of the Elder Days. |
| I The lay of the children of Hurin (large fragment) | |
| II Poems early abandoned | |
| III The lay of Leithian (some fragments) | |
| IV The lay of the Leithian recommenced | |
The Shaping of Middle-Earth |
In this book the shaping of the chronological and geographical structure of the legends of Middle-earth and Valinor is spread before us. |
| I Prose fragments following the Lost Tales | |
| II The earliest 'Silmarillion' | |
| III The Quenta | |
| Commentary | |
| Appendix 1: Aelfwine's translation of the Quenta into Old English; Old English equivalents of Elvish names | |
| Appendix 2: The Horns of Ylmir | |
| IV The first 'Silmarillion' map | |
| V The Ambarkanta | |
| VI The earliest Annals of Valinor | |
| VII The earliest Annals of Beleriand | |
The Lost Road and other writings |
In this book Christopher Tolkien brings Middle-earth to its state at the writing of The Lord of the Rings |
| Part One: The Fall of Numenor and The Lost Road | |
| Part Two: Valinor and Middle-earth before The Lord of the Rings | |
| Part Three: The Etymologies | |
| Appendix | |
The Return of the Shadow |
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The Treason of Isengard |
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The War of the Ring |
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Sauron defeated |
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| Part One: The End of the Third Age | |
| I The Story of Frodo and Sam in Mordor | |
| II The Tower of Kirith Ungol | |
| III The Land of Shadow | |
| IV Mount Doom | |
| V The Field of Kormallen | |
| VI The Steward and the King | |
| VII Many Partings | |
| VIII Homeward Bound | |
| IX The Scouring of the Shire | |
| X The Grey Havens | |
| XI The Epilogue | |
| Appendix: Drawings of Orthanc and Dunharrow | |
| Part Two: The Notion Club Papers | |
| Part Three: The Drowning of Anadune | |
Morgoth's Ring |
In Morgoth's Ring, the first of two companion volumes, Christopher Tolkien describes and documents the later history of The Silmarillion. |
| Part One: Ainulindale | |
| Part Two: The Annals of Aman | |
| Part Three: The later Quenta Silmarillion | |
| Part Four: Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth | |
| Part Five: Myths transformed | |
The War of the Jewels |
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| Part One: The Grey Annals | |
| Part Two: The later Quenta Silmarillion | |
| Part Three: The wanderings of Húrin and other writings not forming part of the Quenta Silmarillion | |
| Part Four: Quendi and Eldar | |
The peoples of Middle-Earth |
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| Part One: The Prologue and Appendices to the Lord of the Rings (fragments) | |
| Part Two: Late writings | |
| X Of Dwarves and Men | |
| XI The Shibboleth of Fëanor | |
| XII The Problem of Ros | |
| XIII Last Writings | |
| Part Three: Teachings of Pengolodh | |
| XIV Dangweth Pengoloð | |
| XV Of Lembas | |
| Part Four: Unfinished Tales | |
| XVI The New Shadow | |
| XVII Tal-Elmar |
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