Morgoth's Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien Read Free Book Online

the Valar on 'the isle of Almar in a great lake' was an addition to the main body of the new text; hence the repetition here.
    20 My father first wrote here: 'in the uttermost parts of Andúnë'.
    21 The name Pelóri ( Valion ) first occurs here; it is found also (under Aman ) in the list of alterations made in 1951 (p. 7).
    22 My father first wrote here 'world', changing it at once to 'earth', which I have capitalised - as also at two other occurrences: capitalisation is inconsistent in Ainulindalë C, partly owing to the retention of passages from the original text B.
    23 The square brackets enclosing this passage (developed from Ainulindalë B, V.162) probably imply its proposed exclusion.
    24 The words in Aman were added later, at the same time as the change of the Halls of Anar to the Halls of Aman in §§15, 24 (see note 11).
    25 See V.165 note 20.
    26 As note 23.
    27 Ainulindalë B has 'all the veins of the world': this was changed to 'of the Earth', I think simply to avoid repetition, since the sentence ends with 'the foundations of the world'.
    28 From this point there is no indication on the manuscript of my father's intention, but in view of the next version D it seems clear that we are to continue with the concluding portion of the old B text (from 'After the departure of the Valar...', V.163). In D, however, there is an intervening passage (sec pp. 35-6) that makes the conclusion more integral with what precedes. - These final paragraphs (§§38-40) were left largely unchanged (though with significant alterations in §40) from the text of B, but I give it in full in order to provide a complete text at this point.
    29 This was changed from the B version 'For Men resemble Melko most of all the Ainur, and yet have ever feared and hated him.'

    Commentary on the Ainulindale text C

    The revision C introduces a radical re-ordering of the original matter of the Ainulindalë , together with much that is new; and it is easiest to show this in the form of a table. This table is in no sense a synopsis of the content, but simply a scheme to show the structural interrelations.

    B C
    The playing of the Music
    The playing of the Music
    Discord of Melko, the Three Themes
    Discord of Melkor, the Three Themes

    MORGOTH`S RING - AINULINDALË - Version C - 24

    Declaration of Ilúvatar to the Ainur: the Declaration of Ilúvatar to the Ainur: 'I Music has been given Being ; the things
    will show forth the things that you
    that Melko has introduced into the have played'
    Design
    The Ainur see the World made real
    The Ainur see the World in vision; they
    see the coming of the Children of
    Ilúvatar

    Elves and Men made by Ilúvatar alone;
    the love of the Ainur for them

    Desire of the Ainur for the World, and
    the desire of Melkor to have dominion
    in it
    Joy of the Ainur in the elements of the Joy of the Ainur in the elements of the Earth
    Earth
    Ulmo's concern with waters, Manwë's Ulmo's concern with waters, Manwë's with the airs, Aulë's with the fabric of
    with the airs, Aulë's with the fabric of
    the Earth
    the Earth
    Desire of the Ainur for the World, and
    the desire of Melko to have dominion
    in it
    Elves and Men made by Ilúvatar alone;
    nature of the Children and their
    relations with the Ainur

    The vision of the World taken away;
    unrest of the Ainur

    Ilúvatar gives Being to the vision
    Entry of the Ainur into the World
    Entry of the Ainur into the World
    Melko walked alone; Ulmo dwelt in the
    Outer Ocean; Aulë in Valinor; Manwë
    with Varda on Taniquetil. Relations
    with the Teleri, Noldor, Lindar
    The forms taken by the Valar, some
    male, some female

    The World unshaped; agelong labours of
    the Valar

    Strife between Melkor and the Valar;
    withdrawal of Melkor from the Earth

    The forms taken by the Valar, some
    male, some female: 'I have seen
    Yavanna'

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    Melkor's return; first battle of the Valar
    for the dominion of Arda; elemental
    strife

    End of the