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The War of the Jewels chapters
Part One: The Grey Annals
Part Two: The Later Quenta Silmarillion
  1. Of Men
  2. Of the Siege of Angband
  3. Of Beleriand and its Realms
  4. Of Turgon and the Building of Gondolin
  5. Concerning the Dwarves
  6. Of the Coming of Men into the West
  7. Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin
  8. The Last Chapters
Part Three: The Wanderings of Húrin and Other Writings
  1. The Wanderings of Húrin
  2. Ælfwine and Dírhaval
  3. Maeglin
  4. Of the Ents and the Eagles
  5. The Tale of Years
Part Four: Quendi and Eldar
Appendix: The legend of the Awaking of the Quendi

Quendi and Eldar is a long essay by J.R.R. Tolkien dating from c. 1959-60, which was published in The War of the Jewels. Quendi and Eldar provides the etymological development of certain words the Elves used to name themselves and other peoples, or to refer to individuals in some way.

A portion of the "Appendix D" was omitted from The War of the Jewels by Christopher to save space. This was published, with some additional material, in Vinyar Tengwar 39 in 1998, edited by Carl F. Hostetter.

Content

  • A. The principal linguistic elements concerned
  • B. Meanings and use of the various terms applied to the Elves and their varieties in Quenya, Telerin, and Sindarin
  • C. The Clan-names, with notes on other names for divisions of the Eldar
    • Appendix A. Elvish names for Men
    • Appendix B. Elvish names for the Dwarves
    • Appendix C. Elvish names for the Orcs
    • Appendix D. *Kwen, Quenya, and the Elvish (especially Ñoldorin) words for 'Language' (incomplete)
    • Note on the 'Language of the Valar'
  • Author's Notes to Quendi and Eldar
  • Editorial Notes
  • Appendix: The legend of the Awaking of the Quendi (Cuivienyarna)

Appendix D in VT39

  • From Quendi and Eldar, Appendix D
  • Author's Notes to the extract from Quendi and Eldar, App. D
  • Editorial glossary to the extract from Quendi and Eldar, App. D
  • Appendix: Noldorin words for Language
  • Author's Notes to "Noldorin words for Language"
  • Editorial glossary to "Noldorin words for Language"
  • Editorial Notes