By Douglas Charles Kane

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Source Materials and Conventions
Introduction: Reconstructing Arda
Part I: The Ainulindalë and the Valaquenta
Ainulindalë (The Music of the Ainur)
Valaquenta (Account of the Valar)
Part II: Quenta Silmarillion (The History of the Silmarils)
Chapter 1 "Of the Beginning of Days"
Chapter 2 "Of Aulë and Yavanna"
Chapter 3 "Of the Coming of the Elves and the Captivity of Melkor"
Chapter 4 "Of Thingol and Melian"
Chapter 5 "Of Eldamar and the Princes of the Eldalië"
Chapter 6 "Of Fëanor and the Unchaining of Melkor"
Chapter 7 "Of the Silmarils and the Unrest of the Noldor"
Chapter 8 "Of the Darkening of Valinor"
Chapter 9 "Of the Flight of the Noldor"
Chapter 10 "Of the Sindar"
Chapter 11 "Of the Sun and the Moon and the Hiding of Valinor"
Chapter 12 "Of Men"
Chapter 13 "Of the Return of the Noldor"
Chapter 14 "Of the Beleriand and Its Realms"
Chapter 15 "Of the Noldor in Beleriand"
Chapter 16 "Of Maeglin"
Chapter 17 "Of the Coming of Men into the West"
Chapter 18 "Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin"
Chapter 19 "Of Beren and Lúthien"
Chapter 20 "Of the Fifth Battle"
Chapter 21 "Of Túrin Turambar"
Chapter 22 "Of the Ruin of Doriath"
Chapter 23 "Of Tuor and the Fall of Gondolin"
Chapter 24 "Of the Voyage of EGrendil and the War of Wrath"
Part III: The Akallabêth, Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age, and the Appendices to the Silmarillion
Akallabêth (The Downfall of Númenor)
Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age
Appendices to the Silmarillion
Conclusion: Arda Reconstructed
Notes
Index