Tolkien's legendarium is the body of J. R. R. Tolkien's mythopoeic writing, unpublished in his lifetime, that forms the background to his The Lord of the Rings, and which his son Christopher summarized in his compilation of The Silmarillion and documented in his 12-volume series The History of Middle-earth.

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The legendarium (also called Tolkien Mythology) is the corpus of connected, fantastical stories imagined and written by J.R.R. Tolkien, making up the history of Arda, and the entire extensive background to The Lord of the Rings.

Oct 22, 2024 · The legendarium is the entirety of J.R.R. Tolkien's works concerning his imagined world of Arda. Tolkien himself used the term, and also referred to his "mythology" in the same sense.

The cosmology of J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium combines aspects of Christian theology and metaphysics with pre-modern cosmological concepts in the flat Earth paradigm, along with the modern spherical Earth view of the Solar System.

Oct 4, 2024 · legendarium (plural legendaria) A literary collection of legends, particularly those detailing the life of a saint. The same society [the Swedish Old-text Society] has begun a continuation of the Old-Swedish Legendarium (in 2 volumes), …

Jul 7, 2024 · Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on The History of Middle-earth is a collection of scholarly essays edited by Verlyn Flieger and Carl F. Hostetter on the History of Middle-earth, a series of books relating to the fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien, compiled and edited by his son, Christopher Tolkien.

The earliest drafts of the great stories of the legendarium were written around the time of World War I, and continued to grow from there on. Tolkien worked on the legendarium for most of his life, continually exploring it further, developing and changing it again and again.

May 17, 2019 · A list of every published book set in Tolkien's world and my recommended order to read them (which is based on the publication order, and only diverges slightly), along with a short, non-spoilery description of how each major work fits into Tolkien's legendarium (which I'll be referencing as LDM from here on).

Now edited and published as The History of Middle-earth by his son and literary executor, Christopher Tolkien, these 12 volumes provide a record of the growth of J.R.R. Tolkien ’s mythology from its beginnings in 1917 to the time of his death more than 50 years later.