Quenta Silmarillion

The Quenta Silmarillion (“History of Silmarils” in Quenya) is the principal part of the Silmarillion of J.R.R. Tolkien.

This text tells the appearance of the Elfe S on the Ground of the Medium and their installation in Valinor where were manufactured then stolen Silmarils. Follow, in order to recover these jewels, the wars of the Beleriand against Melkor, intersected by the appearance of the Human ones.

Summary

Birth of the Elves and misdeeds of Melkor

The Quenta Silmarillion tale how the Elves appeared initially out of Ground of the Medium. Then how the Valar, to protect them, had to fight and overcome Melkor, rebellious Vala, that thereafter one was to call Morgoth (“Enemy Black” of the World in quenya). Valar embanked Melkor and threw it, connected, in the abysses beyond the world. Then they took along the Elves, to a large extent, with the Blessed Kingdom of Valinor, where they thrived a long time. But finally Morgoth was forgiven and released, and he walked free among the Elves of Valinor, secretly sowing hatred and the jealousy among them, as well as the desire to turn over out of Ground of the Medium, free of Valar.

When its intrigues were discovered, Morgoth flees of Valinor to escape anger from Valar. However it returned, accompanied by the monstrous spider Ungoliant, and with its assistance Morgoth killed Laurelin and Telperion, the Arbres of Valinor, whose the light emanated which lit the world.

Flight of Silmarils and exile of Noldor

The light of the Trees still remained within the Silmaril S, three marvellous jewels, forged by Fëanor, of the people of the Noldor, the largest blacksmith and the most powerful being which ever the Elves knew. But Morgoth concealed them and was out of Ground of the Medium. Fëanor and its seven sons then lent the terrible oath by which they were to fight all to be which would have Silmaril, whatever it is, except themselves, under penalty of knowing Nothing Eternal. The majority of Noldor, against the opinion and the wish of Valar, left Valinor following Fëanor and its people, not only by hatred for Morgoth but also by interest for new grounds to take. They were then cursed by Vala Mandos, because they massacred the Teleri Elves to steal their ships to them, in order to cross the sea which separated Valinor from the Earth of the Medium.

War against Morgoth

Noldor unloaded finally in the North-West of the Earth of the Medium, in Beleriand. There the War of the Jewels followed, during which Noldor and their allies the Elves Sindar guerroyèrent against Morgoth cut off in its fortress from Angband. They delivered five great battles to its servants, Orque S, Trolls, Dragons and Balrog S, and of multiples small confrontations lasting nearly six centuries. Fëanor died at the time of the Second Battle, but the Lords of Noldor set up kingdoms since which they continued the fight against Morgoth. Among most important: its seven sons in the North-East of Beleriand; Fingolfin, his/her half-brother, and his son Fingon in Hithlum; Turgon wire of Fingolfin in Nevrast then from its hidden city of Gondolin; Finrod, the different son of sound half-brother Finarfin, in its underground palates with Nargothrond; and Thingol the King of Sindar in his wood bewitched of Doriath.

Later, the account also tells the arrival of Human, the assistance that some of them brought to the Elves in their fight against Morgoth, in particular the Houses of Bëor, Haleth and Hador. And the destinies of human were frays with those of the Elves in the three greater tales of the First Age which one has curtailed versions here (these three original accounts which were born in the Twenties, well before the installation of the final structure of Silmarillion, are: the Tale of Tinúviel , the Tale of Turambar (future Gesture of the children of Húrin ) and the Fall of Gondolin which all were published in the Book of the Lost Tales).

War of the Great Anger and end of the First Age

The history of the war of Silmarils was completed when Eärendil, an Elfe navigator, helped by the capacity of Silmaril which his wife Elwing had inherited Beren and Lúthien, arrived with its ship Vingilot until Valinor, from where Noldor had been banished. There Eärendil beseeched Valar to come to assistance of Noldor and the other people of Beleriand, whose kingdoms all were destroyed or about to be it by the legions of Morgoth. It was exaucé (and since, it always traverses the sky on its ship with Silmaril with the face) and Valar then unchained finally the power of their armies, and left themselves in war against Morgoth: it was the War of Anger.

Morgoth was overcome, its shaven fortress, its destroyed armies, and the two taken again Silmarils last. Noldor were authorized to return in Valinor. But the two last wire of Fëanor, Maedhros and Maglor, constrained by their oath, attacked the soldiers of Valar and concealed Silmarils to them. However the two jewels burned to them the hands with as well insistence as Maedhros was thrown in a crack with its Silmaril, and Maglor launched to it his in the sea head from going away, wandering on the coasts. Thus the First Age of the Earth of the Medium was completed just as the history of Silmarils.

But certain actors of this history took share with the events of the Second and the Third Old one, which came afterwards. Because the Men, led by Elros wire of Eärendil, were established on the island of Númenor, as he is told in the Akallabeth. Elrond, the other wire of Eärendil, remained a chief of the Elves, to know a key role in the history of the Guerre of the Ring. Just like Galadriel, girl of Finarfin, which did not take share with the War of the Jewels but followed its Ground people of the Medium, and which later was to fight against lieutenant de Morgoth, having escaped in Valar, named Sauron Gorthaur.

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