The Silmarillion

collection of myths and stories written by J. R. R. Tolkien

fictional spiritual beings from J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium

The '''''' (; "Music of the Ainur") is the creation account in J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, published posthumously as the first part of The Silmarillion in 1977. The sets out a central part of the cosmology of Tolkien's legendarium, telling how the Ainur, a class of angelic beings, perform a great music prefiguring the creation of the material universe, Eä, including Middle-Earth. The creator Eru Ilúvatar introduces the theme of the sentient races of Elves and Men, not anticipated by the Ainur, and gives physical being to the prefigured universe. Some of the Ainur decide to enter the physic

fictional manuscript written by hobbits, a conceit of author J. R. R. Tolkien

species of spider