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Old 03-12-2002, 11:35 PM   #65
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I offer a revision of lindil's 5.4 outline, no changes except that it is neater and more specific on where to find passages. That will be of great help to anyone coming in mid-way on the project like myself. There shouldn't be any errors, but you might should check anyway.

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TRANSLATIONS FROM THE ELVISH vol. I-III [?]


Volume I

A. AINULINDALE from [HoME-X, Part 1]

B. VALAQUENTA from [HoME-X, Part 3]

C. QUENTA SILMARILLION, Part I

The base texts are the Annals of Aman[HoME-X, Part 2] and the LQ2[HoME-X, Part 3]


1. Of VALINOR AND THE TWO TREES / OF THE BEGINING DAYS

2. OF AULE AND YAVANNA

3. OF THE COMING OF THE ELVES
add parts of 'Quendi and Eldar' re : the '144' [HoME-XI, Part 4]

4. OF THINGOL AND MELIAN

5. OF ELDAMAR AND THE PRINCES OFTHE ELDALIE
add from the Shibboleth of Feanor [HoME-XII, Part 2]

6. {OF THE SILMARILS}THE DARKENING OF VALINOR
[the subchapter division is from LQII[HoME-X, Part 3]

6a. + FINWE AND MIRIEL
[w/possible selections from 'Laws&Customs'[HoME-X, Part 3]
add from the Shibboleth of Feanor [HoME-XII, Part 2]

6b. +OF FEANOR AND THE UNCHAINING OF MELKOR

6c. + OF THE SILMARILS AND THE UNREST OF THE NOLDOR
add from 'Shibboleth of Feanor' ? [HoME-XII, Part 2]

6d. + OF THE DARKENING OF VALINOR
add from of the festival of valinor [HoME-I, Part 6]

*Note*: this draft is actually completed and under the thread DoV:...

6e. +OF THE RAPE OF THE SILMARILS

6f. +OF THE THIEVES' QUARREL

7. OF THE FLIGHT OF THE NOLDOR
add from 'Shibboleth of Feanor'[HoME-XII, Part 2]

8. OF THE SUN AND THE MOON AND THE HIDING OF VALINOR
[ additions from 'Lost Tales I' ?] This is more problematic than many proposed additions
as the nature of the details seems to have gone far afeild from the later conceptions.

Volume II

Of the War of the Jewels and incorporating the longer fragments of the Narn i hin Hurin,
Of Tuor And His Coming To and the Fall of Gondolin, and the Wanderings of Hurin.


A. QUENTA SILMARILLION, Part II

The Tales of Middle-Earth of the End of the First Age.

These are drawn, up until the 15th chapter primarily from the War of the Jewels, after
that it is an amalgam from The Book of Lost Tales II, The Shaping of Middle-Earth,
The Lost Road, The War of the Jewels, Unfinished Tales, and The Silmarillion(1977/2001).

9. OF MEN
I am not at all sure of the way to deal w/ the later conceptions of Chronology. Any ideas?

10. OF THE SIEGE OF ANGBAND

11. OF BELERIAND AND IT'S REALMS / OF THE NOLDOR IN BELERIAND
add from 'Shibboleth of Feanor' [HoME-XII, Part 2]

12. OF TURGON AND THE BUILDING OF GONDOLIN coupled w/ OF MAEGLIN
add from 'Maeglin' in [HoME-XI, Part 3]
[possibly switch the order of Chapters w/ Of the Dwarves to reflect Eol's prior contact.]

13. CONCERNING THE DWARVES
add from 'On Dwarves and Men' [HoME-XII, Part 2]

14. OF THE COMING OF MEN INTO THE WEST
add the 'Athrabeth Finrod Ah Andreth' [HoME-X, Part 4] and from
'On Dwarves and Men'[HoME-XII, Part 2]
Add 'Faithful Stone' from Unfinished Tales.

15. OF THE RUIN OF BELERIAND AND THE FALL OF FINGOLFIN

16. BEREN AND LUTHIEN
add from [HoME-III, Part 2]

*Note*: Hereafter the chapters have been tentativly renumbered.

[17.] OF THE FIFTH BATTLE: NIRNAETH ARNOEDIAD
insert the section from Narn I Hin Hurin of Hurin's farewell in Dorlomin
[Unfinished Tales]

[18.] OF TUOR AND HIS COMING TO GONDOLIN

[19.] OF TURIN TURAMBAR AND THE NARN I CHIN HURIN
(Unfinished Tales, [HoME-II, Part 2], [HoME-V, Part ?], and [HoME-XI, Part 3])
and the gloss from 'Aelfwine and Dirhavel' from [HoME-XI, Part 2]

[20.] OF THE WANDERINGS OF HURIN and OF THE RUIN OF DORIATH
add from [HoME-II], [HoME-IV], and [HoME-V] (and later sketches of Hurin?) or
(and I consider this more feasable) use CRT's chapter from the 77.

[21.] THE FALL OF GONDOLIN
add of details of the battle of the city and flight to Sirion from [HoME-II, Part 3]

[22.] OF THE VOYAGE OF EARENDIL AND THE WAR OF WRATH
[w/ or without the 2nd prophecy of mandos?]

Volume III

Appendices to the Quenta Silmarillion and the Tales of the Second and Third Ages.
[not yet in order]

* LAWS AND CUSTOMS AMONG THE ELDAR

*QUENDI AND ELDAR w/ the Osanwe - Kenta [and LHAMMAS ?]

*TALE OF YEARS/ANNALS OF THE 1ST AGE [?]

*ETYMOLOGIES ? [revised]/ ELVISH DICTIONARY Quenya and Sindarin

* Commentary/Notes to the ATHRABETH FINROD HA ANDRETH


*Note*: The tales of the Second and Third ages will hopefully appear on the next version.

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+++This outline does not as yet reflect the group consensus on all points [or on very many]
it is primarily the opinions of lindil.

+++ I have endeavored to include such queries, conclusions and questions which the forum as the group debated has made [esp. in following the [HoME-X] versions of chapters and subchapters for the Early Silmarillion.

+++Even where not specifically mentioned it is assumed that all relevant Annals and versions
of the Quenta Silmarillion of [HoME-I-V] and [HoME-X-XII] will be consulted.

+++I have begun (but not completed) using the abbreviations used in the thread of the same name, so check there for resolution to minimize any obscurities.

++++This is by no means an exhaustive listing, just a framework to hang further ideas on,
or take them off. I am sure there are a lot of things I havn't caught yet so... Please feel free to monkey around w/ it and put up a new one.

++++ This not an outline that takes the more radical far reaching ideas of the
Myth's Tansformed cosmology into account. The thread of that name covers some issues. Perhaps an outline similar to this w/explanations of the changes involved in a MT version of each chapter will appear at some point in the future by someone w/ a strong urge to tackle it.


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