Digital Tolkien Project

HoMeBase

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’) although dipping into other volumes and chapters as research questions arise. Our goal is to provide a foundation for education and scholarship with an initial focus on metadata, search, data models, bibliography, and citation systems.

We are ‘working with the garage door open’ which means much of what appears here is provisional and incomplete. We welcome feedback and suggestions as we continue to develop the site.

Please contact us if we can assist in your research in any way.

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`04` The Shaping of Middle-earth

The Lays of Beleriand

The Lost Road and other writings

Tolkien Gateway Page

Table of Contents

04.PR Preface
04.01 Prose Fragments Following the Lost Tales
04.02 The Earliest ‘Silmarillion’
04.03 The Quenta
04.04 The First ‘Silmarillion’ Map
04.05 The Ambarkanta
04.06 The Earliest Annals of Valinor
04.07 The Earliest Annals of Beleriand

Bibliographical Information

UK Release: August 21, 1986

US Release: November 14, 1986

More soon.