Annals of Valinor is the sixth section of the The Shaping of Middle-earth, the fourth volume of The History of Middle-earth.
Book contents[]
- 1. Prose fragments following The Lost Tales — brief, uncompleted texts which continue on from The Book of Lost Tales.
- 2. The earliest "Silmarillion" — also referred to as the "Sketch of the Mythology". This is the start of the Silmarillion proper.
- 3. The Quenta — a further developed version of the "Sketch", the first full narrative since the Tales.
- 4. The first "Silmarillion" map — a reproduction of the first map of Beleriand.
- 5. Ambarkanta — cosmological essays, maps, and diagrams.
- 6. The earliest Annals of Valinor.
- 7. The earliest Annals of Beleriand.