Ainulindalë (Morgoth's Ring)

The name Ainulindalë refers to more than one character, item or concept. For a list of other meanings, see Ainulindalë (disambiguation).

Morgoth's Ring

Part One: Ainulindalë Part Two: The Annals of Aman Part Three: The Later Quenta Silmarillion The First Phase Of the Valar Of Valinor and the Two Trees Of the Coming of the Elves Of Thingol and Melian Of Eldanor and the Princes of the Eldalië Of the Silmarils and the Darkening of Valinor Of the Flight of the Noldor Of the Sun and Moon and the Hiding of Valinor The Second Phase The Valaquenta The Earliest Version of the Story of Finwë and Míriel Laws and Customs Among the Eldar Later Versions of the Story of Finwë and Míriel Of Fëanor and the Unchaining of Melkor Of the Silmarils and the Unrest of the Noldor Of the Darkening of Valinor Of the Rape of the Silmarils Of the Thieves' Quarrel Part Four: Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth Tale of Adanel Part Five: Myths Transformed

The Ainulindalë is the first part of Morgoth's Ring, the tenth volume of The History of Middle-earth. It contains three different versions of the Ainulindalë written after the last version published in The Lost Road and Other Writings.

Synopsis

When he had just begun to write The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien rewrote the cosmological myth in what his son tags as Ainulindalë B. Christopher assumed that his father didn't come back to the matter of the Elder Days until finishing The Lord of the Rings, but editing