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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Tolkien did not finish ''[[The Book of Lost Tales]]'', so it is unknown if he would conclude with a Prophecy of the End of the World, but there are many mentions of a '''Great End''' throughout the tales. The earliest description of the event was written in an unclear date and it is not mentioned as a prophecy:</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Tolkien did not finish ''[[The Book of Lost Tales]]'', so it is unknown if he would conclude with a Prophecy of the End of the World, but there are many mentions of a '''Great End''' throughout the tales. The earliest description of the event was written in an unclear date and it is not mentioned as a prophecy:</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>=== The Quenta Noldorinwa ===</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>=== The <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</ins>Quenta Noldorinwa<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'' </ins>===</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>''[[The Quenta]]'', being the only finished version of ''The Silmarillion'', is the first version that includes a properly named '''Prophecy of Mandos''', declared in [[Valmar]] at the judgement of the Gods. It follows closely the version of the '[[Sketch of the Mythology]]', although there are some remarkable changes: Morgoth destroys the Sun and Moon (related with the version of "[[The Hiding of Valinor]]" [[Dagor Dagorath#The Book of Lost Tales|cited above]]); [[Tulkas]] is the chief antagonist of Melko, with Fionwë on his right and Túrin on his left; the Earth is broken and re-made, and the Silmarils are recovered; Eärendel yields up his Silmaril; [[Fëanor]] gives the Silmarils to Yavanna and she breaks them; the dead of the Elves arise and the purpose of Ilúvatar concerning them is fulfilled. It is specified that the Prophecy doesn't speak about the [[Men]], except of Túrin, who is named among the "[[Valarindi|sons of the Gods]]" (cleary related with the version of the [[Turambar and the Foalókë|Lost Tale]]).<ref>{{SM|CQ19}}, p. 205</ref> </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>''[[The Quenta]]'', being the only finished version of ''The Silmarillion'', is the first version that includes a properly named '''Prophecy of Mandos''', declared in [[Valmar]] at the judgement of the Gods. It follows closely the version of the '[[Sketch of the Mythology]]', although there are some remarkable changes: Morgoth destroys the Sun and Moon (related with the version of "[[The Hiding of Valinor]]" [[Dagor Dagorath#The Book of Lost Tales|cited above]]); [[Tulkas]] is the chief antagonist of Melko, with Fionwë on his right and Túrin on his left; the Earth is broken and re-made, and the Silmarils are recovered; Eärendel yields up his Silmaril; [[Fëanor]] gives the Silmarils to Yavanna and she breaks them; the dead of the Elves arise and the purpose of Ilúvatar concerning them is fulfilled. It is specified that the Prophecy doesn't speak about the [[Men]], except of Túrin, who is named among the "[[Valarindi|sons of the Gods]]" (cleary related with the version of the [[Turambar and the Foalókë|Lost Tale]]).<ref>{{SM|CQ19}}, p. 205</ref> </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The same text, with a few amendations, was later used for the manuscript ''[[Quenta Silmarillion (Lost Road)|Quenta Silmarillion]]'' made in [[1937]].<ref>{{LR|P2VI}}, p. 333</ref> Christopher later mentions this version is introduced by the subheading '''''The Second Prophecy of Mandos'''''.<ref name=Last>{{WJ|Last}}, p. 247</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The same text, with a few amendations, was later used for the manuscript ''[[Quenta Silmarillion (Lost Road)|Quenta Silmarillion]]'' made in [[1937]].<ref>{{LR|P2VI}}, p. 333</ref> Christopher later mentions this version is introduced by the subheading '''''The Second Prophecy of Mandos'''''.<ref name=Last>{{WJ|Last}}, p. 247</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>=== The Later Quenta Silmarillion ===</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">=== ''The Children of Húrin'' ===</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Tolkien rewrote the ''Quenta Silmarillion'' in [[1958]] in what is called [[The Later Quenta Silmarillion|the Later ''Quenta Silmarillion'']], and the last chapters are so similar to the last version mentioned, that Christopher only gives the changes with notes.<ref name=Last></ref> However, due this is the last version of the Prophecy, the text is reconstructed here in full, following those notes:</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In the chapter ''[[Túrin in Nargothrond]]'' from ''[[The Children of Húrin]]'' written in the mid-to-late [[1950]]'s, there is an exchange between [[Finduilas]], daughter of [[Orodreth]] King of [[Nargothrond]], and [[Gwindor]], Finduilas' betrothed:<ref>{{CH|10}}, p. 169</ref><ref>{{UT|2o}}, pp. 204-5</ref></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Tolkien rewrote the ''Quenta Silmarillion'' in [[1958]] in what is called [[The Later Quenta Silmarillion|the Later ''Quenta Silmarillion'']], and the last chapters are so similar to the last version mentioned, that Christopher only gives the changes with notes.<ref name=Last></ref> However, due <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">to the fact that </ins>this is the last version of the Prophecy, the text is reconstructed here in full, following those notes:</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Ralph Damiani - The Great Jewels.jpg|250px|thumb|''The Great Jewels'' by [[:Category:Images by Ralph Damiani|Ralph Damiani]]]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[File:Ralph Damiani - The Great Jewels.jpg|250px|thumb|''The Great Jewels'' by [[:Category:Images by Ralph Damiani|Ralph Damiani]]]]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{blockquote|Thus spake Mandos in prophecy, when the Gods sat in judgement in Valinor, and the rumour of his words was whispered among all the Elves of the West. When the world is old and the [[Powers]] grow weary, then Morgoth, seeing that the guard sleepeth, shall come back through the Door of Night out of the Timeless Void; and destroy the Sun and Moon. But Eärendil shall descend upon him as a white and searing flame and drive him from the airs. Then shall the '''Last Battle''' be gathered on the fields of Valinor. In that day Tulkas shall strive with Morgoth, and on his right hand shall be Eönwë, and on his left Túrin Turambar, son of [[Húrin]], returning from the [[Doom of Men]] at the ending of the world; and the black sword of Túrin shall deal unto Morgoth his death and final end; and so shall the children of Húrin and all Men be avenged.<br /></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{blockquote|Thus spake Mandos in prophecy, when the Gods sat in judgement in Valinor, and the rumour of his words was whispered among all the Elves of the West. When the world is old and the [[Powers]] grow weary, then Morgoth, seeing that the guard sleepeth, shall come back through the Door of Night out of the Timeless Void; and destroy the Sun and Moon. But Eärendil shall descend upon him as a white and searing flame and drive him from the airs. Then shall the '''Last Battle''' be gathered on the fields of Valinor. In that day Tulkas shall strive with Morgoth, and on his right hand shall be Eönwë, and on his left Túrin Turambar, son of [[Húrin]], returning from the [[Doom of Men]] at the ending of the world; and the black sword of Túrin shall deal unto Morgoth his death and final end; and so shall the children of Húrin and all Men be avenged.<br /></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Thereafter shall Earth be broken and re-made, and the Silmarils shall be recovered out of Air and Earth and Sea; for Eärendil shall descend and surrender that flame which he hath had in keeping. Then Fëanor shall take the Three Jewels and he will break them and with their fire Yavanna will rekindle the Two Trees, and a great light shall come forth. And the Mountains of Valinor shall be levelled, so that the Light shall go out over all the world. <s>In that light the Gods will grow young again, and the Elves awake and all their dead arise, and the purpose of Ilúvatar be fulfilled concerning them. But of Men in that day the prophecy of Mandos doth not speak, and no Man it names, save Túrin only, and to him a place is given among the sons of the Valar.</s>|''[[The War of the Jewels]]'', "The Last Chapters of the ''Quenta Silmarillion''", ''The Second Prophecy of Mandos''}}</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Thereafter shall Earth be broken and re-made, and the Silmarils shall be recovered out of Air and Earth and Sea; for Eärendil shall descend and surrender that flame which he hath had in keeping. Then Fëanor shall take the Three Jewels and he will break them and with their fire Yavanna will rekindle the Two Trees, and a great light shall come forth. And the Mountains of Valinor shall be levelled, so that the Light shall go out over all the world. <s>In that light the Gods will grow young again, and the Elves awake and all their dead arise, and the purpose of Ilúvatar be fulfilled concerning them. But of Men in that day the prophecy of Mandos doth not speak, and no Man it names, save Túrin only, and to him a place is given among the sons of the Valar.</s>|''[[The War of the Jewels]]'', "The Last Chapters of the ''Quenta Silmarillion''", ''The Second Prophecy of Mandos''}}</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In addition to the change of names, the main changes are: Túrin coming back from the dead and Fëanor himself breaking the Silmarils. The last two sentences are here crossed out, as Tolkien marked them with a large X in the margin of the manuscript. There is also a marginal mention of [[Beren]] [[Camlost]] near Túrin, without direction of its insertion.<ref name=Last></ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In addition to the change of names, the main changes are: Túrin coming back from the dead and Fëanor himself breaking the Silmarils. The last two sentences are here crossed out, as Tolkien marked them with a large <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"</ins>X<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">" </ins>in the margin of the manuscript. There is also a marginal mention of [[Beren]] [[Camlost]] near Túrin, without direction of its insertion.<ref name=Last></ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Douglas C. Kane]] notices that Tolkien made the specific edit of rejecting the last sentences, making no effort at all to remove the part of the prophecy regarding Túrin or the remaking of Arda. This would indicate that he had the intention to retain them.<ref>[[Douglas Charles Kane]], ''[[Arda Reconstructed: The Creation of the Published Silmarillion]]'', 24. "Of the Voyage of Eärendil", p. 237</ref> The continuity of the Prophecy in the legendarium is tied up to the complicated transition of ''The Silmarillion'' from Elvish to Mannish lore, as it is explained below.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[Douglas C. Kane]] notices that Tolkien made the specific edit of rejecting the last sentences, making no effort at all to remove the part of the prophecy regarding Túrin or the remaking of Arda. This would indicate that he had the intention to retain them.<ref>[[Douglas Charles Kane]], ''[[Arda Reconstructed: The Creation of the Published Silmarillion]]'', 24. "Of the Voyage of Eärendil", p. 237</ref> The continuity of the Prophecy in the legendarium is tied up to the complicated transition of ''The Silmarillion'' from Elvish to Mannish lore, as it is explained below.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{blockquote|The language of the Folk of Haleth was not used, for they had perished and would not rise again. Nor would their tongue be heard again, unless the prophecy of [[Andreth]] the [[Wise-woman]] should prove true, that Túrin in the Last Battle should return from the Dead, and before he left the Circles of the World for ever should challege the Great Dragon of Morgoth, [[Ancalagon]] the Black, and deal him the death-stroke.<ref>{{PM|Ros}}, p. 374, note 17</ref>}} </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>{{blockquote|The language of the Folk of Haleth was not used, for they had perished and would not rise again. Nor would their tongue be heard again, unless the prophecy of [[Andreth]] the [[Wise-woman]] should prove true, that Túrin in the Last Battle should return from the Dead, and before he left the Circles of the World for ever should challege the Great Dragon of Morgoth, [[Ancalagon]] the Black, and deal him the death-stroke.<ref>{{PM|Ros}}, p. 374, note 17</ref>}} </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br/></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>These words refer to the [[War of Wrath]], but Christopher noticed that the relation with the Second Prophecy is clear, so it can be another sign that closing the "<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Númenorean </del>Silmarillion" with a prophecy was not discarded.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>These words refer to the [[War of Wrath]], but Christopher noticed that the relation with the Second Prophecy is clear, so it can be another sign that closing the "<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Númenórean </ins>Silmarillion" with a prophecy was not discarded.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Etymology ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Etymology ==</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the [[oath of Elendil]], the "End of the World" is expressed in [[Quenya]] as '''''[[Ambar-metta]]'''''.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the [[oath of Elendil]], the "End of the World" is expressed in [[Quenya]] as '''''[[Ambar-metta]]'''''.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In a List of Names from the 1930s, the battle <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">of </del>the End of the World was called '''''Dagor Delothrin''''' in [[Noldorin]] ("Terrible Battle").<ref>{{LR|A2}}, p. 405</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</ins>List of Names<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'' </ins>from the 1930s, the battle <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">at </ins>the End of the World was called '''''Dagor Delothrin''''' in [[Noldorin]] ("Terrible Battle").<ref>{{LR|A2}}, p. 405</ref></div></td></tr>
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