"The First Phase" "Of the Valar" "Of Valinor and the Two Trees" "Of the Coming of the Elves" "Of Thingol and Melian" "Of Eldanor and the Princes of the Eldalië" "Of the Silmarils and the Darkening of Valinor" "Of the Flight of the Noldor" "Of the Sun and Moon and the Hiding of Valinor" "The Second Phase" "The Valaquenta" "The Earliest Version of the Story of Finwë and Míriel" "Laws and Customs Among the Eldar" "Later Versions of the Story of Finwë and Míriel" "Of Fëanor and the Unchaining of Melkor" "Of the Silmarils and the Unrest of the Noldor" "Of the Darkening of Valinor" "Of the Rape of the Silmarils" "Of the Thieves' Quarrel" — http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/The_Later_Quenta_Silmarillion The Later QS is heavily fragmented, and relies on copious editorial commentary to hold it together. Christopher Tolkien does not attempt to reproduce the writing in its entirety, but instead to compare and note any changes or edits to the earlier (pre-LotR) versions of these tales found in the “Quenta Silmarillion” section of volume V of The History of Middle-earth, The Lost Road and Other Writings. This technique may be disorienting, particularly to those who did not read the earlier versions of the tales found in The Lost Road. — http://www.tolkien-online.com/war-of-the-jewels.html Contents of the History of Middle-Earth (The Lost Road and Other Writings, Volume 5) Quenta Silmarillion Ends with Turin's outlawry, but does include the end from Eärendels arrival in Valinor to the Great Battle. After this was written the "History of the Elder Days" was laid aside for many years. Written: The later 1930s, last revisions Dec 1937 - Jan 1938 The Later Quenta Silmarillion The "Valinorian" part of the Quenta (until the hiding of Valinor) in two different "phases". In the 'Second Phase' the 'Valaquenta' emerges and Finwë's second marriage becomes important. Includes 'Laws and Customs among the Eldar' and 'The Statute of Finwë and Míriel and the debate of the Valar' in different versions. Written: The First Phase c. 1951, the Second c. 1958 The Later Quenta Silmarillion II The "Beleriandic" part of the Quenta from the awakening of Men. Introduces very few changes and is thus not presented as a full text but only recounts the changes made at this time. Written: c. 1951 — http://www.forodrim.org/daeron/md_hm.html : So there's LQ I, 1st and 2nd, and LQ II The First Phase of the “Later Quenta” likely derives from the same time period as the previous two texts that appear in Morgoth's Ring, that is, 1950-1952. The “Second Phase” likely dates from 1957-1958, where it can be dated by a reference to it in a letter to Rayner Unwin in December of ’57. These “Phases” expand considerably on the earlier versions of the QS, including a glut of new material on Fëanor and the Silmarils, also enlarging the role of Melkor/Morgoth as the primary source of Arda’s corruption (to paraphrase some of Christopher Tolkien’s foreward). — http://www.tolkien-online.com/morgoths-ring.html 1 — AAm / LQ / Ainu D 2 — invented 3 — LQ / AAm / LQ 4 — LQ 5 — AAm / LQ 6 — FM / LQ 7 — AAm / LQ 8 — LQ / AAm / LQ / AAm 9 — LQ / AAm 10 — GA 11 — AAm 12 — LQ 13 — GA / QS / GA / LQ / GA 14 — LQ & QS 15 — GA 16 — (WotJ) 17 — CMW 18 — LQ & QS / CoH / GA 19 — QS I / QS II 20 — QS / GA / Narn / GA 21 — Narn & UT / GA 22 — WH / invented / QN 23 — UT / invented / QN 24 — QN / QS / LQ & QS / QS 1–9 AAm, LQ | FM 10–15 GA, LQ | AAm, QS 17 CMW (LQ) 18–21 QS, GA | LQ, CoH, Narn 22 QN, QS | LQ, UT, WH — silm-sources.jpg :: LQ 1.1 seems to cover 1–59 (pp.141–198) LQ 1.2 seems to cover 1–59 too up to "Rape of the Silmarils" (pp.199–291) then "The paragraph numbers here begin a new series, since they cannot be usefully related to those of QS." and so it goes from 1–21 (pp.292–300) LQ 2 is done in "differences" format: 9. Of Men (p.173) 10. Of the Siege of Angband (p.175) 11. Of Beleriand and its Realms (p.180) 12. Of Turgon and the Building of Gondolin (p.198) 13. Concerning the Dwarves (p.201) 14. Of the Coming of Men into the West (p.215) 15. Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin (p.238) ?. The Last Chapters (p.243) "Of the next chapters in QS (12 - 15), the tale of Beren and Luthien, there is almost nothing to add to my account in V.292 ff." "The textual history of the following chapters (16 and 17) of the Quenta Silmarillion has been fully described in Vol.V (see especially pp. 293-4), and need not be repeated here." — War of the Jewels : So it's not clear whether LQ means LQ 1.1 or LQ 1.2