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The Annals of Valinor

the early chronicle of the Blessed Realm (The Shaping of Middle-earth, HoME 4)

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Nature

The Annals of Valinor — the “AV”, the earliest chronicle of the Blessed Realm — is the year-reckoning of the mythology’s first ages: a terse journal of the Years of the Valar and the Years of the Trees, from the making of Arda and the Two Trees, through the awakening and the journey of the Elves, to the revolt and flight of the Noldor. It is the chronological backbone out of which grew the later and fuller Annals of Aman.

Contents

The reckoning of the years of the Trees before the count of the Sun, and the great events assigned to each year of the Valar; The making of the Two Trees and the light of Valinor; the coming of the Elves and the dividing of the kindreds; The years of Melkor’s ruin — the stealing of the gold and gems, the death of the Trees, and the exile of the Noldor; The bridging of the chronicle into the later annals, and the hand that would reshape it into the Annals of Aman.

Composition

Drafted in the early 1930s and carried through later revisions, the Annals of Valinor stands before the fuller Annals of Aman in the annals-matrix; it was printed with the associated Quenta material in The Shaping of Middle-earth (HoME 4), where Christopher Tolkien sets out the versions and compares their year-systems. It is the seed of the great annals layer of the mythology, continued in Annals of Aman and the Grey Annals.

Verknüpfte Seiten

Annals of AmanGrey AnnalsThe Shaping of Middle-earthThe Two Trees of ValinorQuenta SilmarillionConcordance — A to Z
Werke: die Quellen sind seitenübergreifend die Bücher von J.R.R. und Christopher Tolkien (Silmarillion, Hobbit, Herr der Ringe, Unfinished Tales, History of Middle-earth, Nature of Middle-earth u. a.) — eigene Zusammenfassung. Siehe die Concordance und den README der Quelle für die Einzelbelege.
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