Morgoth's Ring

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Morgoth's Ring
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AuthorJ.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien
PublisherHoughton Mifflin
ReleasedDecember 14, 1993
FormatHardcover
Pages488
ISBN0395680921

Morgoth's Ring: The Later Silmarillion, Part One, is the first of two volumes on the later development of The Silmarillion, and volume 10 of the The History of Middle-earth, edited by Christopher Tolkien.

"This book indeed is all about Morgoth. Incomparably greater than the power of Sauron, concentrated in the One Ring, Morgoth's power (Tolkien wrote) was dispersed into the very matter of Arda: 'The whole of Middle-earth was Morgoth's Ring.'"
― From the jacket cover

The book explores the time after the publication of The Lord of the Rings when J.R.R. Tolkien returned to "the Matter of the Elder Days." 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 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. The second part of this history of the later Silmarillion is concerned with developments in the legends of Beleriand after the completion of The Lord of the Rings.

Contents

  1. Ainulindalë
  2. The Annals of Aman
  3. The Later Quenta Silmarillion
    1. "The First Phase"
      1. "Of the Valar"
      2. "Of Valinor and the Two Trees"
      3. "Of the Coming of the Elves"
      4. "Of Thingol and Melian"
      5. "Of Eldanor and the Princes of the Eldalië"
      6. "Of the Silmarils and the Darkening of Valinor"
      7. "Of the Flight of the Noldor"
      8. "Of the Sun and Moon and the Hiding of Valinor"
    2. "The Second Phase"
      1. "The Valaquenta"
      2. "The Earliest Version of the Story of Finwë and Míriel"
      3. "Laws and Customs Among the Eldar"
      4. "Later Versions of the Story of Finwë and Míriel"
      5. "Of Fëanor and the Unchaining of Melkor"
      6. "Of the Silmarils and the Unrest of the Noldor"
      7. "Of the Darkening of Valinor"
      8. "Of the Rape of the Silmarils"
      9. "Of the Thieves' Quarrel"
  4. Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth
  5. Myths Transformed
The History of Middle-earth series
i.The Book of Lost Tales: Part One · ii.The Book of Lost Tales: Part Two · iii.The Lays of Beleriand ·
iv.The Shaping of Middle-earth · v.The Lost Road and Other Writings · vi.The Return of the Shadow ·
vii.The Treason of Isengard · viii.The War of the Ring · ix.Sauron Defeated ·
x.Morgoth's Ring · xi.The War of the Jewels · xii.The Peoples of Middle-earth · (Index)