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| | Literary Encyclopedia: J. R. R. Tolkien |
 | | They appear in an almost coherent and complete form in The Silmarillion (as edited and published in 1977), though Tolkien continued to work on them until his death, and many volumes of drafts have since appeared. | | | Especially interesting is the Creation myth “Ainulindalë”, which begins the published Silmarillion. | | | This draws on Tolkien's deepest ethical convictions in its metaphoric representation of the divine creation, not as an expression of coercive power, but as artistic creativity which nurtures the independence of those created, and rejoices in what they in turn create. |
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| | So began there great labours in wastes unmeasured and unexplored, and in ages uncounted and forgotten. | | | -- DougCreller --from Ainulindalë in The Silmarillion --well mostly |
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