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Contents
Foreword
Editorial Practices
Abbreviations & Conventions
Part One: Time and Ageing
Introduction
The Valian Year
Valinorian Time-Divisions
Of the Time in Arda
Time-scales
Natural Youth and Growth of the Quendi
The Awaking of the Quendi
The March of the Quendi
Eldarin Traditions Concerning the "Awakening"
Time-scales and Rates of Growth
Difficulties in Chronology
Ageing of Elves
Concerning the Quendi in their Mode of Life and Growth
Key Dates
Calculation of the Increase of the Quendi
A Generational Scheme
Note on the Youth of Growth of the Quendi
Generational Schemes
Elvish Ages & Númenórean
Elvish Life-cycles
Time and its Perception
Notes on Elvish Time-reference
A Fragment from The Annals of Aman
A Fragment from The Grey Annals
Part Two: Body, Mind and Spirit
Introduction
Beauty and Goodness
Gender and Sex
Eldarin Hands, Fingers, and Numerals
Hair
Beards
Descriptions of Characters
Mind-Pictures
Knowledge and Memory
Ósanwe-kenta
Notes on Órë
Fate and Free Will
The Knowledge of the Valar
Spirit
The Visible Forms of the Valar and Maiar
Elvish Reincarnation
From The Statute of Finwë and Míriel
Death
Part Three: The World, its Lands, and its Inhabitants
Introduction
Dark and Light
The Primal Impulse
Powers of the Valar
The Making of Lembas
Note on Elvish Economy
Dwellings in Middle-earth
The Founding of Nargothrond
Manwë's Ban
Elvish Journeys on Horseback
Rider to "The White Rider"
Lives of the Númenóreans
The Ageing of Númenóreans
Of the Land and Beasts of Númenor
Note on the Consumption of Mushrooms
The Númenórean Catastrophe & End of "Physical" Aman
Galadriel and Celeborn
Silvan Elves and Silvan Elvish
Note on the Delay of Gil-galad and the Númenóreans
Note on Dwarvish Voices
Note on the Dwarf Road
From The Hunt for the Ring
The Rivers and Beacon-hills of Gondor