About the Book
The first of two companion volumes which documents the later writing of
The Silmarillion, Tolkien’s epic tale of war.
After the The Lord
of the Rings was at last achieved, J R R Tolkien turned his attention
once again to ‘the Matter of the Elder Days’. The text of the Annals of
Aman, the ‘Blessed Land’ in the far West, is given in full; while in
writings hitherto unknown is seen the nature of the problems that
Tolkien explored in his later years, as new and radical ideas,
portending upheaval in the old narratives, emerged at the heart of the
mythology, and as the destinies of Men and Elves, mortals and immortals, ecame of central significance, together with a vastly enlarged
perception of the evil of Melkor, the Shadow upon Arda. The second part of this history of the later Silmarillion is concerned with
developments in the legends of Beleriand after the completion of The
Lord of the Rings.
