These could be the chapters of a Full Version Silmarillion

NOW THAT most of J.R.R. Tolkien's works on his mythology have been published we could try to take the published Silmarillion and add to it the different readable texts (i.e. tales, chronicles, essays, etc. which can be considered as definitive in the author's thoughts at least as the Silmarillion; but not the 'immature' or previous versions leading to the published text).

The table of contents below has the intention to serve as a reading guide to those Tolkien fans who might have read the novel parts The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings –skipping the Appendices and even maybe the Prologue to the latter– and, avid to explore the those works' rich background, might want to read all of it, in a row –at least apart from the possible upcoming '14th' volume of The History of Middle-earth. In the next post I will provide the references for that hypothetical –but likely– reader with the information regarding where, in which books and chapters, to find the texts in order to get a reading as continuous as possible.

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Prologue: Ælfwine of England

1. Ainulindalë: The Music of the Ainur

2. Valaquenta

2.1 Of the Valar

2.2 Of the Maiar

2.3 Of the Enemies

 2.4 Of the Entity of the Valar

2.5 Of the Communication of Thought

QUENTA SILMARILLION

3. Of the Beginning of Days

4. Of Aulë and Yavanna

5. Of the Coming of the Elves and the Captivity of Melkor

5.1 Cuivienyarna: The Legend of the Awaking of the Quendi

5.2 Of Orcs

6. Of the Great Journey and Eldamar

7. Of the Nature and Lives of the Eldar

7.1 Of Elven Languages

7.2 Of Life in Aman

7.3 Of Growth and Marriage

7.4 Of the Begetting and Bearing of Children

7.5 Of Lembas

7.6 Of Naming

7.7 Of Death and the Severance of Fëa and Hröa

7.8 Of Re-birth and Other Dooms of Those that Go to Mandos

8. Of the Princes of the Noldor

9. Of Fëanor

10. Of the Unchaining of Melkor

11. Of the Darkening of Valinor

12. Of the Flight of the Noldor

13. Of the Doom of Finwë and Míriel

14. Of the Sindar

15. Of the Sun and Moon and the Hiding of Valinor

15.1 Of the Beginning of Time and its Reckoning

15.2 Of the Hiding of Valinor

16. Of the Fashion of Arda

17. Of Men

18. Of the Return of the Noldor

19. Of Beleriand and Its Realms

20. Of the Noldor in Beleriand

21. Of Maeglin

22. Of the Coming of Men into the West

23. Of the Drúedain

23.1 The Faithful Stone

24. Of Finrod and Andreth

24.1 The Tale of Adanel

25. Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin

26. Of Beren and Lúthien

27. Of the Fifth Battle: Nirnaeth Arnoediad

28. Narn i Hîn Húrin: The Tale of the Children of Húrin

28.1 The Childhood of Túrin

28.2 The Words of Húrin and Morgoth

28.3 The Departure of Túrin

28.4 Túrin in Doriath

28.5 Túrin among the Outlaws

28.6 Of Mîm the Dwarf

28.7 The Return of Túrin to Dor-lómin

28.8 The Coming of Túrin into Brethil

28.9 The Journey of Morwen and Nienor to Nargothrond

28.10 The Coming of Glaurung

28.11 The Death of Glaurung

28.12 The Death of Túrin

29. Of the Wanderings of Húrin

30. Of the Ruin of Doriath

31. Of Tuor and the Fall of Gondolin

32. Of the Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath

AKALLABÊTH

33. Of the Kingdom of Númenor

34. Aldarion and Erendis, The Mariner’s Wife

35. Of the Shadow upon Númenor

36. Lives of the Númenóreans

37. Tal-elmar

38. Of the Rebel Kings of Númenor

39. Of Isildur and Elendur

40. Of the Downfall of Númenor

40.1 The Legend told by Later Men

The Dominion of Men

40. Of the Rings of Power and the Last Alliance

41. The Disaster of the Gladden Fields

42. Of Eriador, Arnor, and the Heirs of Isildur

43. Of the Istari

44. Of Gondor and the Heirs of Anárion

45. Of the Friendship of Gondor and Rohan

46. Of Amroth and Nimrodel

47. Of the Periannath

48. Of Durin’s Folk and the Kingdom of Erebor

49. Of the Decline of the Third Age

50. The Battles of the Fords of Isen

51. Of the End of the Third Age

52. The New Shadow

Philological Appendices

I. Quendi and Eldar

A. The principal linguistic elements concerned.

B. Meanings and use of various terms applied to the Elves and their varieties.

C. The Clan-names, with notes on other names for divisions of the Eldar.

D. Elvish names for Men.

E. Elvish names for the Dwarves.

F. Elvish names for the Orcs.

G. *Kwen, Quenya, and the Elvish (especially Ŋoldorin) words for ‘Language’.

II. On the “Language of the Valar”

III. Eldarin Numerals.

IV. The Languages and Peoples of The Third Age

IV.1 Of the Elves

IV.2 Of Men

IV.3 Of Hobbits

IV.4 Of Other Races

V. Gondorian Toponomastics
V.1 The names of the Rivers
V.2 Indigenous Region-names
V.3 The names of the Beacon hills

VI. Writing Systems