Chart over the Transmission of the Legends

Chart over the Transmission of the Legends:

" " = Important works

( ) = Translations

> = Flows

Quennar i Onotimo

"Of the Beginning of Time..."

"Yenonotie"

"The Tale of Years"

Rumil | "Golden Book"

"Annals of Aman"----------<--------| |

"Ambarkanta" | |

"Ainulindale" | |

| | PENGOLODH | DIRHAVEL

|---------------->----------"Quenta Silmarillion"---<-"Narn I Chin Hurin"

| |

|-------------------<-----------------+

|

|------------>--------+------->-----+

| | |

| Numenor Rivendell

| | "Books of Lore"

| | |

| | |

| Arnor and |

| Gondor | Bilbo Baggins

| "Book of the Kings" | "My Diary"

| "Book of the Stewards" +--"Translations from the Elvish"

| | |

"Quentale | Torhir Ifant | | Frodo Baggins

Ardanomion" | "Dorgannas Iaur" | | Sam Gamgee

| | | | | "The War of the Ring"

| | | | | |

| | | | "The Red Book of Westmarch"

| | | | Findegil |

| | | |---->----"The Thain's Book"--------<------|

| | | | | [MANY COPIES]

| AELFWINE | | | |

("Quenta Silmarillion") | +------------>-----------|

("Annals of Aman") | |

("Grey Annals") | |

| | |

+-------->------------|-------------------------<----------------+

|

J. R. R. TOLKIEN

("The Hobbit")

("The Lord of the Rings")

("The Silmarillion")