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J. R. R. TOLKIEN MORGOTHS RING THE HISTORY OF MIDDLE-EARTH Volume 10 The Later Silmarillion Part One The Legends of Aman Edited by Christopher Tolkien HarperCollinsPublishers, 1994 First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1993 ________________________________ ò?ê?ò ?ò?êàíèe?aàí ? ?eè?èíà?à è ??e?a???í a ò?ê?ò?aót ??eìó. ? ?òàeà??? è??eàaèòü a?? ??èáêè, a??íèêàtùè? ?eè è????ü??aàíèè ò??í????èè OCR, í? ???í?é ?àeàíòèè a ?ò?óò?òaèè òàê?a?? ?àòü í? ì??ó. ?.?. The Silmarillion, foundation of the imagined world of J. R. R. Tolkien, was as is well known never completed, never brought to a final form after the writing of The Lord of the Rings: the work is known from the text published posthumously in 1977, a construction from the narratives that existed, not a completion. In Morgoths Ring, the first of two companion volumes, Christopher Tolkien describes and documents the later history of The Silmarillion, from the time when his father turned again to the Matter of the Elder Days after The Lord of the Rings was at last achieved. The text of the Annals of Aman, the Blessed Land in the far West, is given in full; while in writings hitherto unknown is seen the nature of the problems that J. R. R. Tolkien explored in his later years, as new and radical ideas, portending upheaval in the old narratives, emerged at the heart of the mythology, and as the destinies of Men and Elves, mortals and immortals, became of central significance, together with a vastly enlarged perception of the evil of Melkor, the Shadow upon Arda. Among these writings a central place is given to the Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth, in which the Elvish King of Nargothrond debates with the wise-woman Andreth the injustice of human mortality. The second part of this history of the later Silmarillion will be concerned with developments in the legends of Beleriand after the completion of The Lord of the Rings, and will include the unpublished story The Wanderings of Hurin. CONTENTS Foreword pag