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Aiwendil, am I right in thinking then that Tolkien did get so far as to organize the the chapters in the Sil.? I hadn't realized, and wongly assuming it to be CT's work.
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Well, yes and no. Tolkien did divide the 'Quenta Silmarillion' into chapters in all versions he wrote, but these chapters do not in all cases correspond to those found in the '77 published Silmarillion. In large part, this has to do with the fact that many sections of the published Silmarillion are actually conglomerations of two different texts - the 'Quenta Silmarillion' and the 'Annals' (i.e. 'Annals of Aman' and 'Grey Annals').
This chapter, though, comes more or less directly from the 'Quenta Silmarillion', so the decision to insert a whole chapter on the geography of Beleriand is indeed JRRT's.