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''The Shaping of Middle-earth'' (1986) is the fourth volume of Christopher Tolkien's 12-volume series ''The History of Middle-earth'' in which he analyses the unpublished manuscripts of his father J. R. R. Tolkien. In it the gradual transition from the "primitive" legendaria of ''The Book of Lost Tales'' to what would become ''The Silmarillion'' is described, and it contains a text which could be seen as the first "Silmarillion": the "Sketch of the Mythology". Three other parts are the ''Ambarkanta'' or "Shape of the World", a collection of maps and diagrams of the world described by Tolkien; and the Annals of Valinor and Beleriand, chronological works which started out as timelines but gradually turned into full narrative. ==Contents== #Prose fragments following the Lost Tales — brief, uncompleted texts which continue on from ''The Book of Lost Tales'' #The earliest "Silmarillion" — also referred to as the "Sketch of the Mythology", this is the start of the Silmarillion proper #The ''Quenta'' — a further developed version of the "Sketch", the first full narrative since the ''Tales'' #The first "Silmarillion" map — a reproduction of the first map of Beleriand #The ''Ambarkanta'' — cosmological essays, maps, and diagrams #The earliest ''Annals of Valinor'' #The earliest ''Annals of Beleriand'' 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Shaping of Middle-earth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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