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== | ==Etymology== | ||
''Dagor Dagorath'' is [[Sindarin]], a combination of ''[[dagor]]'' ("battle"), with its own class-plural ''dagor[[-ath]]'' ("all battles"), therefore: "Battle of All Battles". | |||
In Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s, the battle at the end of the World was called ''Dagor Delothrin'' in [[Noldorin]] ("Terrible Battle"). | |||
==External links== | ==External links== | ||
*[http://middle-earth.xenite.org/2013/03/19/why-did-tolkien-leave-out-the-second-prophecy-of-mandos/ Why Did Tolkien Leave Out the Second Prophecy of Mandos?] by [[Michael Martinez]] | *[http://middle-earth.xenite.org/2013/03/19/why-did-tolkien-leave-out-the-second-prophecy-of-mandos/ Why Did Tolkien Leave Out the Second Prophecy of Mandos?] by [[Michael Martinez]] |
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History of Arda | ||
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Before the Creation | ||
Before the Ages | ||
Days before days | ||
Years of the Trees (up to Y.T. 1050) | ||
Ages of the Children of Ilúvatar | ||
First Age (begins in Y.T. 1050 and overlaps with the Years of the Trees up to Y.T. 1500) - Years of the Sun begin in F.A. 1 | ||
Second Age - Arda made round in S.A. 3319 | ||
Third Age | ||
Fourth Age | ||
Later Ages (up to present day) | ||
End of Arda | ||
Timeline of Arda (See: Round World version of the Silmarillion for a later conception of Tolkien's cosmology) |
- "Manwë will not descend from the Mountain until the Dagor Dagorath, and the coming of the End, when Melkor returns."
- ― Unfinished Tales, "The Istari"[1]
The Last Battle, also known as the Second Prophecy of Mandos, but probably best known as the Dagor Dagorath (Sindarin, "Battle of all Battles"), is an apocalyptic event prophesied by Mandos. According to Christopher Tolkien, the Dagor Dagorath was abandoned by Tolkien.[2]
The Silmarillion
In the 1977 Silmarillion, the Dagor Dagorath is only mentioned as the Last Battle in two ocassions:
- "... Many other of the ancient stars she gathered together and set as signs in the heavens of Arda: [...] and Menelmacar with his shining belt, that forebodes the Last Battle that shall be at the end of days."
- ― Of the Coming of the Elves and the Captivity of Melkor
- "But Ar-Pharazôn the King and the mortal warriors that had set foot upon the land of Aman were buried under falling hills: there it is said that they lie imprisoned in the Caves of the Forgotten, until the Last Battle and the Day of Doom."
- ― Akallabêth
No other information about the End of the World is given in The Silmarillion except the few mentions of the Second Music of the Ainur.
Omission of the Second Prophecy
Although the Second Prophecy of Mandos is used as the closing words for the Quenta Silmarillion in many manuscripts, Christopher deliberately omitted it. This decision was due a passage of The Later Quenta Silmarillion, which states that
- "if any change shall come and the Marring [of Arda] be amended, Manwë and Varda may know; but they have not revealed it, and it is not declared in the dooms of Mandos."
- ― " The Valaquenta", Morgoth's Ring)[2]
Those words were taken literally by Christopher, deducing that Tolkien would removed the Second Prophecy in the final version.[2] Instead, he used those words as the own closing of his published Quenta.[3] This decision is questioned among the fandom and the canonicity of the Second Prophecy is a popular debate. However, the publications after the 1977 Silmarillion gave a better understanding of Tolkien's final vision and its canonicity has prevailed, as Verlyn Flieger states: «Tolkien wrote that the Legendarium ends with a vision of the end of the world, its breaking and remaking, and the recovery of the Silmarilli and the "light before the sun". [...] It would be strange if he had not envisioned such an end, for the mythologies on which he draws most heavily, Judeo-Christian and Norse, both included remaking and renewal in surprisingly similar terms.»[4]
Other versions of the Legendarium
The Book of Lost Tales
The Quenta Noldorinwa
Etymology
Dagor Dagorath is Sindarin, a combination of dagor ("battle"), with its own class-plural dagor-ath ("all battles"), therefore: "Battle of All Battles".
In Silmarillion drafts from the 1930s, the battle at the end of the World was called Dagor Delothrin in Noldorin ("Terrible Battle").
External links
References
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "The Istari", p. 395
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Morgoth's Ring, "Part Three. The Later Quenta Silmarillion: (II) The Second Phase: The Valaquenta", p. 204
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of the Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath"
- ↑ Verlyn Flieger, Splintered Light, 19."Filled with Clear Light", pp. 160-161
Things I can't get
- The Battle of the Eastern Field: in Mallorn 12
- The Happy Mariners poem, version of June 1920, in The Stapeldon Magazine
- All three poems in A Northern Venture
- The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien: A Brief Account of the Book and its Making: in Mallorn 14