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Ainulindalë (Quenya: "Music of the Ainur", also known as the Great Music or the Great Song[1]) is the initial chapter of The Silmarillion, edited and published by Christopher Tolkien after his father's death. The name is pronounced eye-nu-lin-da-lay. As part of the Tolkien Middle-earth cycle, Ainulindalë plays the role of its cosmogony, or creation story. Many of the themes and storylines ...
Aug 23, 2024 · For a list of other meanings, see Ainulindalë (disambiguation). Ainulindalë: The Music of the Ainur is the first part of The Silmarillion, edited by Christopher Tolkien from his father 's later texts. It narrates the creation of the world which was to be the scene of all the following tales of the Quenta Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings.
Although commentary on The Silmarillion has primarily focused on the work as a whole, the reaction to the Ainulindalë has been generally positive. Joseph Pearce, a Roman Catholic commentator, called it "the most important part of The Silmarillion" and said, "The myth of creation is perhaps the most significant and most beautiful of Tolkien's ...
The Silmarillion (Quenya: [silmaˈrilːiɔn]) is a book consisting of a collection of myths [a] [T 1] and stories in varying styles by the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien.It was edited, partly written, and published posthumously by his son Christopher Tolkien in 1977, assisted by Guy Gavriel Kay, who became a fantasy author.
The Danish Tolkien Ensemble has set all the songs in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings to music.. The music of Middle-earth consists of the music mentioned by J. R. R. Tolkien in his Middle-earth books, the music written by other artists to accompany performances of his work, whether individual songs or adaptations of his books for theatre, film, radio, and games, and music more generally ...
Tolkien wrote the Quenta Silmarillion , which was still a work in progress in 1937 when The Hobbit was published and his focus shifted to a sequel about hobbits. As C. Tolkien notes in B&L , from the two drafts of the Quenta Silmarillion he derived the version in the published Silmarillion , with some editorial changes (p. 219). 4
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The Silmarillion is supposed to be the stories passed down by the Elves. The "Music" of the Ainur could quite possibly be just metaphor. This is God and his Angels cres ting the Universe itself. How they did it is quite likely beyond what the Elves could comprehend so they use this "Music" metaphor. However, song is very prevalent throughout ...
