Event

The Music of the Ainur

The Ainur sing the Great Music from which Eä, the World, is made.

Supplementary writingsFrom posthumously published works, notes, drafts or appendices.

Date: Before the reckoning of time
Age: Before the Ages
Type: Creation
Certainty: Unknown

The event

The Ainur sing the Great Music from which Eä, the World, is made.

On the dating

No dates exist before the making of the world; the ordering is thematic, not chronological.

Consequences

Ilúvatar gives being to the Music, and the Ainur enter Eä to shape it. Melkor’s discord enters creation itself.

Participants

Morgoth

Morgoth

The first Dark Lord, a fallen Vala whose discord marred Arda and whose wars shaped the First Age.

Sources

The Silmarillion · 1977
Posthumously edited. Contains the Ainulindalë, Valaquenta, Quenta Silmarillion, Akallabêth and Of the Rings of Power.