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J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy masterpiece spans three volumes, but don't stop there. Beyond The Lord of the Rings lies a whole world of mythmaking to explore.
Other Tolkien scholars have used the term legendarium in a variety of contexts. [2] [3] [4] Christopher Tolkien's introduction to The History of Middle-earth series talks about the "primary 'legendarium'", for the core episodes and themes of The Silmarillion which were not abandoned in his father's constant redrafting of the work. [T 7]
Discussing Frodo's failure to destroy the Ring in The Return of the King, Tolkien indicates in a letter that "the One" does intervene actively in the world, pointing to Gandalf's remark to Frodo that "Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker", and to the eventual destruction of the Ring despite Frodo's failure to complete the task.
Tolkien's Sigelwara etymologies, leading to major strands of his Legendarium including the Silmarils, Balrogs, and the Haradrim. [ T 13 ] [ 4 ] The idea of the Silmaril is connected to Tolkien's philological exploration of the Old English word Siġelwara , which was used in the Old English Codex Junius to mean " Aethiopian ". [ 5 ]
Tolkien meant Arda to be "our own green and solid Earth", seen here in the Baltistan mountains, "at some quite remote epoch in the past". [1]In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, the history of Arda, also called the history of Middle-earth, [a] began when the Ainur entered Arda, following the creation events in the Ainulindalë and long ages of labour throughout Eä, the fictional universe.
Tolkien initially intended the Ainulindalë ("The Music of the Ainur") to be part of The Book of Lost Tales, which he wrote in the 1910s and 1920s. [T 3] In a letter, Tolkien stated that he had written the first version of the Ainulindalë between November 1918 and the spring of 1920, while he was working on the Oxford English Dictionary. [T 4]
In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, the Two Trees of Valinor are Telperion and Laurelin, the Silver Tree and the Gold Tree, which bring light to Valinor, a paradisiacal realm where angelic beings live. The Two Trees are of enormous stature, and exude dew that is a pure and magical light in liquid form.
According to Shippey, Tolkien invented parts of Middle-earth to resolve the linguistic puzzle he had accidentally created by using different pseudo-translated European languages for those of peoples in his legendarium. [40] Tolkien devoted enormous effort to placenames, for example making those in The Shire such as Nobottle, Bucklebury, and ...