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This site is intended to be the hub of the Digital Tolkien Project’s work on The History of Middle-earth series edited by Christopher Tolkien. We are at an early stage of development, working on The Book of Lost Tales (‘transversely’) and the Music of the Ainur / Ainulindalë (‘longitudinally’), and our goal is to provide a foundation for education and scholarship with an initial focus on metadata, search, data models, bibliography, and citation systems.

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`01.04` The Chaining of Melko

01.03
The Coming of the Valar and the Building of Valinor

01.05
The Coming of the Elves and the Making of Kôr

Text Types

Text Type	Segments	Tokens
`P`	48	6,261
`S`	81	575
unknown	38	1,960

‘unknown’ indicates segments that have not yet been assigned a text type.

01:P5 The Chaining of Melko (interlude+story) (ink over erased pencil)

The Chaining of Melko

Cover of book includes ‘The Chaining of Melko’

Versions

erased pencil under ink in notebook
ink in notebook (given as P5)

Tinfang Warble

Versions

Oxford 1914 (29A?)
Leeds 1920–23 (29B?)
Published 1927 I.U.M(agazine) (29C?) = (given ???)

Over Old Hills and Far Away

Versions

five versions
earliest written at Brocton Camp in Staffordshire between December 1915 and February 1916, and rewritten at Oxford in 1927
final version given along with some differences in earlier readings
three in Collected Poems (43A, 43B, 43C)