![]() ![]() Tolkien's classic tales such as " Leaf by Niggle" and " Roverandom", and Medieval retellings such as " The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun" and " The Fall of Arthur", are excluded from this.įor an explanation of the variants of the qualifiers "canon" and "precanon" on this Wiki, see LOTR:Canon. In use, legendarium refers to what includes the "final", canonical lore of Arda, lore here considered "precanonical" (such as that of Eriol), and Tolkien's revisions of various matters from after the publication of The Lord of the Rings. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tolkien imaginatively intended these stories to be a creative legendarium for Europe, and they are meant to be taken fictitiously as an ancient history of a part of Earth several thousand years before the modern era. These tales and their settings changed through many stages of development throughout Tolkien's life, and their final versions were selected and published together posthumously as The Silmarillion by Tolkien's son, Christopher. The majority of these writings, revealing a vast ancient and First Age history of Arda, were named the Silmarillion. This legendarium was developed in evolving, complex stages over almost six decades of Tolkien's life. Tolkien, making up the history of his world Arda, and the entire extensive background to The Lord of the Rings. " Tolkien Mythology" and " the legendarium" are terms for the system of connected, fantastical stories imagined and written of by J.R.R. ![]()
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