22/07/2020

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

4 comentarios:

  1. Hola. Yo tengo hecho, desarrollado durante mas de 25 años, un Libro Rojo completo en 5 volumenes, donde se incluyen los 3 libros de las Traducciones del Elfico. La estructutura es distinta a la aqui planteada pero incluye todo el material "historico" acumulado y ensamblado coherentemente. Siempre esta en continua revision y ahora con el anuncio de posibles nuevos textos ineditos pues podria modificarse, pero ahi esta. Hay compañeros de la STA que lo estan revisando para pulirlo ortograficamente etc.

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  2. Por cierto te invito a leer un articulo que me publicaron en el 2008, relacionado con los libros de Rateliff de los que hablaste en el untimo podcast de RaH.

    http://www.elfenomeno.com/info/ver/19761/titulo/La-Historia-de-El-Hobbit

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  3. Yo hice unas Lecturas Completas de Tolkien que se parece mucho a ese orden e incluyen también El Hobbit y El Señor de los Anillos: https://lecturascompletastolkien.blogspot.com/

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