The HoMe-texts in chronological order

By Ninni M. Pettersson

Contents

The Tens

Appendix - Names in the Lost Tales Part I
Written: First layer c. 1915, second uncertain but belong to the period of the Lost Tales
Included in: The Book of Lost Tales 1

Appendix - Names in the Lost Tales Part II
Written: First layer c. 1915, second uncertain but belong to the period of the Lost Tales
Included in: The Book of Lost Tales 2

The Book of Lost Tales Part I
Written: c. 1916 - 1918, poems both earlier and later
Included in: The Book of Lost Tales 1

The Book of Lost Tales Part II
Written: c. 1916 - 1920, poems both earlier and later
Included in: The Book of Lost Tales 2


The Twenties

Prose fragments following the Lost Tales
Written: Probably around 1920
Included in: The Shaping of Middle-earth

The Lay of the Children of Húrin
Written: c. 1920 - 1925
Included in: The Lays of Beleriand

Poems early abandoned
Written: c. 1920 - 1925
Included in: The Lays of Beleriand

The Earliest 'Silmarillion' (The 'Sketch of the Mythology')
Written: c. 1926, revised c. 1926 - 1930
Included in: The Shaping of Middle-earth

The First 'Silmarillion' Map
Written: c. 1926, heavily altered during several years
Included in: The Shaping of Middle-earth

The Lay of Leithian
Written: 1925 - 1931
Included in: The Lays of Beleriand


The Thirties

The Quenta [Noldorinwa]
Written: c. 1930
Included in: The Shaping of Middle-earth

The Earliest Annals of Valinor
Written: The early 1930s
Included in: The Shaping of Middle-earth

The Earliest Annals of Beleriand
Written: The early1930s
Included in: The Shaping of Middle-earth

The Genealogies
Written: The early 1930s
Included in: The Lost Road

The List of Names
Written: The 1930s
Included in: The Lost Road

The Second 'Silmarillion' Map
Written: The early 1930s, much altered later
Included in: The Lost Road

The Ambarkanta
Written: The middle 1930s
Included in: The Shaping of Middle-earth

The Fall of Númenor
Written: 1936, second version after 1937
Included in: The Lost Road

The Lost Road
Written: 1936 - 1937
Included in: The Lost Road

The Later Annals of Valinor
Written: The middle/later 1930s
Included in: The Lost Road

The Later Annals of Beleriand
Written: The middle/later 1930s
Included in: The Lost Road

Ainulindalë
Written: The middle/later 1930s
Included in: The Lost Road

The Lhammas
Written: The middle/later 1930s
Included in: The Lost Road

Quenta Silmarillion
Written: The later 1930s, last revisions Dec 1937 - Jan 1938
Included in: The Lost Road

The Etymologies
Written: The later 1930s, last larger revisions c. 1938
Included in: The Lost Road

Appendix on Runes
Written: The later 1930s
Included in: The Treason of Isengard

The First Phase
Written: Dec 1937 - early autumn 1938
Included in: The Return of the Shadow

The Second Phase
Written: Autumn 1938
Included in: The Return of the Shadow

The Third Phase
Written: Winter 1938/39 and autumn 1939
Included in: The Return of the Shadow

The Story Continued
Written: Late 1939
Included in: The Return of the Shadow

The Family Trees
Written: Late 1939 - 1955
Included in: The Peoples of Middle-earth

The Treason of Isengard
Written: Late 1939 - 1942
Included in: The Treason of Isengard


The Forties

The Fall of Saruman
Written: 1942
Included in: The War of the Ring

The Ring Goes East
Written: 1944
Included in: The War of the Ring

Minas Tirith
Written: Late 1944 - 1946
Included in: The War of the Ring

The Notion Club Papers
Written: Late 1945 - 1946
Included in: Sauron Defeated

The Drowning of Anadûnê
Written: c. 1945 - 1946
Included in: Sauron Defeated

The End of the Third Age
Written: Late 1946 - 1948
Included in: Sauron Defeated

Ainulindalë II
Written: Round Earth version c. 1946, the rest after 1948
Included in: Morgoth's Ring

The Prologue
Written: 1948 - before July 1950
Included in: The Peoples of Middle-earth

The Appendix on Language
Written: Probably 1948 and 1950 - 1955
Included in: The Peoples of Middle-earth

The Lay of Leithian recommenced
Written: 1949 or 1950, some revisions after 1955
Included in: The Lays of Beleriand

The Calendars
Written: c. 1949 - 1950
Included in: The Peoples of Middle-earth

The Heirs of Elendil
Written: c. 1949 - 1950
Included in: The Peoples of Middle-earth

The Tale of Years of the Third Age
Written: c. 1949 - 1950
Included in: The Peoples of Middle-earth

The History of the Akallabêth
Written: c. 1949 - 1950, published version probably 1958
Included in: The Peoples of Middle-earth


The Fifties

The Tale of Years of the Second Age
Written: During the early 1950s
Included in: The Peoples of Middle-earth

The Quest of Erebor
Written: During the early 1950s
Included in: Unfinished Tales

The Making of Appendix A
Written: During the early 1950s, some revisions in 1965
Included in: The Peoples of Middle-earth

Dangweth Pengoloþ
Written: Probably in the early half of the 1950s
Included in: The Peoples of Middle-earth

Of Lembas
Written: Probably in the early half of the 1950s
Included in: The Peoples of Middle-earth

The Annals of Aman
Written: c. 1950 - 1951 with some later emendations
Included in: Morgoth's Ring

The Grey Annals
Written: c. 1950 - 1951
Included in: The War of the Jewels

The Later Quenta Silmarillion
Written: The First Phase c. 1951, the Second c. 1958
Included in: Morgoth's Ring

The Later Quenta Silmarillion II
Written: c. 1951
Included in: The War of the Jewels

Of Tuor and his coming to Gondolin
Written: c. 1951
Included in: Unfinished Tales

Narn i Hîn Húrin
Written: During the 1950s
Included in: Unfinished Tales

The Wanderings of Húrin and other writings
Written: During the 1950s with later emendations
Included in: The War of the Jewels

The New Shadow
Written: During the 1950s and around 1968
Included in: The Peoples of Middle-earth

The Istari
Written: Essay c 1954, the rest during the late 1960s and early 1970s
Included in: Unfinished Tales

The Hunt for the Ring
Written: c. 1954 - 1955
Included in: Unfinished Tales

Tal-Elmar
Written: c. 1955
Included in: The Peoples of Middle-earth

Myths Transformed
Written: The late 1950s
Included in: Morgoth's Ring

Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth
Written: c. 1959
Included in: Morgoth's Ring

Quendi and Eldar
Written: 1959 - 1960
Included in: The War of the Jewels


The Sixties and Later

A Description of the Island of Númenor
Written: Probably c. 1960
Included in: Unfinished Tales

Aldarion and Erendis
Written: Probably c. 1960
Included in: Unfinished Tales

The Palantíri
Written: c. 1965
Included in: Unfinished Tales

The Line of Elros: Kings of Númenor
Written: No date given, perhaps during the 1960s?
Included in: Unfinished Tales

The Shibboleth of Fëanor
Written: Probably c. 1968
Included in: The Peoples of Middle-earth

The Problem of Ros
Written: Probably c. 1968
Included in: The Peoples of Middle-earth

The Disaster of the Gladden Fields
Written: Probably c. 1969
Included in: Unfinished Tales

Cirion and Eorl
Written: Probably c. 1969
Included in: Unfinished Tales

The Battles of the Fords of Isen
Written: Probably c. 1969
Included in: Unfinished Tales

Of Dwarves and Men
Written: Probably c. 1969
Included in: The Peoples of Middle-earth

The History of Galadriel and Celeborn
Written: Mostly late writings from the late 1960s and early 1970s
Included in: Unfinished Tales

The Drúedain
Written: The late 1960s and early 1970s
Included in: Unfinished Tales

Last Writings
Written: c. 1972 - 73
Included in: The Peoples of Middle-earth

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