The Silmarillion

Contents

TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT

EPIGRAPH

FOREWORD

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

FROM A LETTER BY J.R.R. TOLKIEN TO MILTON WALDMAN, 1951

AINULINDALË

VALAQUENTA

QUENTA SILMARILLION

CHAPTER 1: OF THE BEGINNING OF DAYS

CHAPTER 2: OF AULË AND YAVANNA

CHAPTER 3: OF THE COMING OF THE ELVES AND THE CAPTIVITY OF MELKOR

CHAPTER 4: OF THINGOL AND MELIAN

CHAPTER 5: OF ELDAMAR AND THE PRINCES OF THE ELDALIË

CHAPTER 6: OF FËANOR AND THE UNCHAINING OF MELKOR

CHAPTER 7: OF THE SILMARILS AND THE UNREST OF THE NOLDOR

CHAPTER 8: OF THE DARKENING OF VALINOR

CHAPTER 9: OF THE FLIGHT OF THE NOLDOR

CHAPTER 10: OF THE SINDAR

CHAPTER 11: OF THE SUN AND MOON AND THE HIDING OF VALINOR

CHAPTER 12: OF MEN

CHAPTER 13: OF THE RETURN OF THE NOLDOR

CHAPTER 14: OF BELERIAND AND ITS REALMS

CHAPTER 15: OF THE NOLDOR IN BELERIAND

CHAPTER 16: OF MAEGLIN

CHAPTER 17: OF THE COMING OF MEN INTO THE WEST

CHAPTER 18: OF THE RUIN OF BELERIAND AND THE FALL OF FINGOLFIN

CHAPTER 19: OF BEREN AND LÚTHIEN

CHAPTER 20: OF THE FIFTH BATTLE: NIRNAETH ARNOEDIAD

CHAPTER 21: OF TÚRIN TURAMBAR

CHAPTER 22: OF THE RUIN OF DORIATH

CHAPTER 23: OF TUOR AND THE FALL OF GONDOLIN

CHAPTER 24: OF THE VOYAGE OF EÄRENDIL AND THE WAR OF WRATH

AKALLABÊTH

OF THE RINGS OF POWER AND THE THIRD AGE

NOTE ON PRONUNCIATION

INDEX OF NAMES

KEEP READING

APPENDIX

FOOTNOTES

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

J.R.R. TOLKIEN

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER