Quatrième de couverture
THE HISTORY OF MIDDLE-EARTH
Volume 1
CHRISTOPHER TOLKIEN
The Book of Lost Tales stands at the beginning of the entire conception
of Middle-earth and Valinor for the Tales were the first form of the
myths and legends that came to be called The Silmarillion. Embedded in
English legend and English association, they are set in the narrative frame
of a great westward voyage over the Ocean by a mariner named Eriol (or AElfwine)
to Tol Eressëa, the Lonely Isle, where Elves dwelt; from them he learned their
true history, the Lost Tales of Elfinesse. In the 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 cosmogoly of the invented world.
« In these Lost Tales we have the scholar joyously gambolling in the thickets
of his imagination... a Commentary and Notes greatly enrich the quest. »
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
« afford us an almost over the shoulder view into the evolving creative
process and genius of J.R.R. Tolkien in a new, exciting aspect... the superb,
sensitive and extremely helpful commentary and editing done by Christopher Tolkien
makes all this possible. »
MYTHLORE
Table des matières
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Foreword
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1
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| I. |
THE COTTAGE OF LOST PLAY
Notes and Commentary
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13
21
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| II. |
II THE MUSIC OF THE AINUR
Notes and Commentaries
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45
49,60
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| III. |
THE COMING OF THE VALAR AND THE BUILDING OF VALINOR
Notes and Commentary
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64
79
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| IV. |
THE CHAINING OF MELKO
Notes and Commentary
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94
106
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| V. |
THE COMING OF THE ELVES AND THE MAKING OF KÔR
Notes and Commentary
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113
129
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| VI. |
THE THEFT OF MELKO AND THE DARKENING OF VALINOR
Notes and Commentary
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140
155
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| VII. |
THE FLIGHT OF THE NOLDOLI
Notes and Commentary
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162
169
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| VIII. |
THE TALE OF THE SUN AND MOON
Notes and Commentary
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174
195
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| IX. |
THE HIDING OF VALINOR
Notes and Commentary
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207
219
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| X. |
GILFANON'S TALE: THE TRAVAIL OF THE NOLDOLI AND THE COMING
OF MANKIND
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229
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Appendix: Names in the Lost Tales - Part I
Short Glossary of Obsolete, Archaic, and Rare Words
Index |
246
274
276
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