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Tolkien developed a list of names and meanings called the Qenya Lexicon. Christopher Tolkien included extracts from this in an appendix to The Book of Lost Tales, with mentions of specific stars, planets, and constellations. [21] [22] The Sun was called Anor or Ur. [T 24] [T 25] The Moon was called Ithil or Silmo.
The legendarium's origins reach back to 1914, when Tolkien began writing poems and story sketches, drawing maps, and inventing languages and names as a private project to create a mythology for England. The earliest story, "The Voyage of Earendel, the Evening Star", is from 1914; he revised and rewrote the legendarium stories for most of his ...
She notes that while some of Tolkien's legendarium writings envisaged a frame story about travel backwards in time from modern England, as in the unfinished The Notion Club Papers, The Silmarillion became the ancient history of a region in the north of Europe, far less precisely located. In Fimi's view, Tolkien's enthusiasm for English ...
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. ... Tolkien’s Middle-earth legendarium ...
Imagemap with clickable links. 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 ...
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.
In the Years of the Trees, Arda was lit by the Two Trees of Valinor. Melkor damaged the trees, and Ungoliant drained them of their sap [T 2]. Tolkien's original writings say that Ungoliant was a primeval spirit of night, named Móru, [T 3] who aided Melkor in his attack upon the Two Trees of Valinor, draining them of their sap after Melkor had injured them.
In the cosmology of Tolkien's legendarium, Men live only in the world (Arda), are able to die from it, have souls, and may ultimately go to Heaven, though this is left vague in the Legendarium. [2] The Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey notes that in the Middle English source, the South English Legendary from c. 1250, which he presumes Tolkien must ...