Herein are collected the oldest tale of the downfall of Númenor; the story of the Lost Road into the West; the Annals of Valinor and the Annals of Beleriand in a later form; the Ainulindalë or the Music of the Ainur; the Lhammas or Account of Tongues; the Quenta Silmarillion or History of the Silmarils; and the history of many words and names.

Preface

Part One: The Fall of Númenor and The Lost Road

1. The Early History of the Legend

2. The Fall of Númenor

3. The Lost Road
•Includes the texts of the poems: ◦Ilu Ilúvatar en Káre Eldain a Fírimoin
◦King Sheave
◦The Nameless Land (as published in Realities: An Anthology of Verse)
◦The Song of Ælfwine (two versions)


Part Two: Valinor and Middle-earth Before The Lord of the Rings

1. The Texts and Their Relations

2. The Later Annals of Valinor

3. The Later Annals of Beleriand

4. The Ainulindalë

5. The Lhammas
•Includes The Lhammas itself, with reproductions of two versions of a diagram entitled The Tree of Tongues.
•It is followed by a shorter but related piece called Lammasethen, which reproduces a further version of The Tree of Tongues and another diagram - The Peoples of the Elves.

6. Quenta Silmarillion

Part Three: The Etymologies
•A two-volume Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies was published in Vinyar Tengwar Issue 45 (2003) and Issue 46 (2004).

Appendix I - The Genealogies

Appendix II - The List of Names

Appendix III - The Second ‘Silmarillion’ Map

Index