The Book of Lost Tales: Part One

The Book of Lost Tales stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-earth and Valinor for the Tales were the first form of the myths and legends that came to be called The Silmarillion. Embedded in English legend and English association, they are set in the narrative frame of a great westward voyage over the Ocean by a mariner named Eriol (or AElfwine) to Tol Eressea, the Lonely Isle, where Elves dwelt; from them he learned their true history, the Lost Tales of Elfinesse. In the Tales are found the earliest accounts and original ideas of Gods and Elves, Dwarves, Balrogs and Orcs; of the Silmarils and the Two Trees of Valinor; of Nargothrond and Gondolin; of the geography and cosmology of the invented world.

Contents

1. "The Cottage of Lost Play" — the "framework" story
2. "The Music of the Ainur" — the first version of what would become the Ainulindalë
3. "The Coming of the Valar and the Building of Valinor" — later Valaquenta and first chapters of Quenta Silmarillion
4. "The Chaining of Melko" — Melko is an earlier name of Melkor
5. "The Coming of the Elves and the Making of Kôr" — Kôr is the later Tirion and its hill Túna
6. "The Theft of Melko and the Darkening of Valinor"
7. "The Flight of the Noldoli" — "Noldoli" or "Gnomes" are the Elves later called Ñoldor
8. "The Tale of the Sun and Moon"
9. "The Hiding of Valinor"
10. "Gilfanon's Tale: The Travail of the Noldoli and the Coming of Mankind"