Quatrième de couverture
THE HISTORY OF MIDDLE-EARTH
Volume 5
CHRISTOPHER TOLKIEN
At the end of 1937, J.R.R Tolkien reluctantly set aside his work on the myths
and heroic legends of Valinor and Middle-earth and began The Lord of the
Rings.
This fifth volume of The History of Middle-earth completes the examination
of his writing up that time. Later forms of The Annals of Valinor and
The Annals of Beleriand had been composed, The Silmarillion was
nearing completion in a greatly amplified form, and a new Map had been made.
The legend of the Downfall of Númenor had entered the work, includind
those central ideas : the World Made Round and the Straight Path into the vanished
West. Closely associated with this was the abandoned 'time-travel' story The
Lost Road, linking the world of Númenor and Middle-earth with the
legends of many other times and peoples.
Also included in this volume is The Lhammas, an essay on the complex languages
and dialects of Middle-earth, and an 'etymological dictionary' containing an
extensive account of Elvish vocabularies.
Table des matières
| |
Preface
|
I
|
| |
PART ONE
THE FALL OF NÚMENOR AND THE LOST ROAD
|
|
| I. |
THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE LEGEND
|
7
|
| II. |
THE FALL OF NÚMENOR
(i) The original outline
(ii) The first version of The Fall of Númenor
(iii) The second version of The Fall of Númenor
(iv) The further development of The Fall of Númenor
|
11
13
23
31
|
| III. |
THE LOST ROAD
(i) The opening chapters
(ii) The Númenórean chapters
(iii) The unwritten chapters
|
36
57
77
|
| |
PART TWO
VALINOR AND MIDDLE-EARTH BEFORE THE LORD OF THE RINGS
|
|
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
|
THE TEXTS AND THEIR RELATIONS
THE LATER ANNALS OF VALINOR
THE LATER ANNALS OF BELERIAND
AINULINDALË
THE LHAMMAS
QUENTA SILMARILLION
|
107
109
124
155
167
199
|
| |
PART THREE
|
|
| |
THE ETYMOLOGIES
|
341
|
| |
APPENDIX
|
|
I.
II.
III.
Index |
THE GENEALOGIES
THE LIST OF NAMES
THE SECOND 'SILMARILLION MAP'
|
403
404
407
415
|
