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The title of this volume comes from a statement in one of the essays: "Just as [[Sauron]] concentrated his power in the [[One Ring]], [[Morgoth]] dispersed his power into the very matter of [[Arda (Tolkien)|Arda]], thus the whole of [[Middle-earth]] was Morgoth's Ring".<ref>{{cite book | author = J. R. R. Tolkien | authorlink = J. R. R. Tolkien | editor = [[Christopher Tolkien]] | year = 1993 | title = Morgoth's Ring | location = Boston & New York | publisher = [[Houghton Mifflin]] | isbn = 0-395-68092-1 | page = xi | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/morgothsringlate00tolk}}</ref>
''Morgoth's Ring'' presents source
* Later (1951) revisions of ''The Silmarillion'', showing Tolkien's drastic revisiting and rewriting of his legends.
* "[[Annals of Aman]]" — a detailed chronology from the creation of the world through to the end of the [[First Age]], including an explanation of time reckoning in [[Valian Years]].
* "Laws and Customs among the Eldar" — several essays and legends on the [[Eldar (Middle-earth)|Eldar]]
* "Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth" — A discussion between two characters,
* "Tale of Adanel" — the Middle-earth version of the
* "Myths Transformed" — several fragments on Morgoth, Sauron, and the problem of the origin of the [[Orc (Middle-earth)|Orcs]]. This section, which proposes inconsistent solutions to the problem, is frequently cited in discussions concerning the Tolkien [[legendarium]], and represents the author's later-evolved views on some central topics.
===The Annals of Aman===
'''''The Annals of Aman''''' date to the period following the completion of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''. There are three extant versions of the text, including a carefully emended manuscript, a typescript and its carbon copy, each featuring different corrections and notes, and a typescript of the earlier sections of the text that deviates from the previous typescript. Christopher Tolkien surmises that the first typescript was composed in 1958.
A reworking of the earlier ''[[Annals of Valinor]]'' (which was the working title of the manuscript until Tolkien changed it) and connected closely with the narrative of the incomplete 1937 ''[[Quenta Silmarillion]]'', ''The Annals of Aman'' moves from a compressed narrative style to a fuller accounting of the events of the chronology.
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