The Book of Lost Tales, Part One

The Book of Lost Tales stands at the beginning of the entire conception of Middle-earth and Valinor. Embedded in English legend and English association, they were set in the narrative frame of a great westward voyage over the Ocean by a mariner named Eriol to Tol Eressëa, the Lonely Isle, where the elves dwelt; from them he learned their true history, the Lost Tales of Elfinesse. In the Tales are found the earliest accounts and original ideas of Gods and Elves; Dwarves and Orcs; the Silmarils and the Two trees of Valinor; Nargothrond and Gondolin; the geography and cosmology of the invented world.

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