Da steckte etwas ungeheuer Fernes, Wundersames und Schönes hinter diesen Worten, * weit jenseits des archaischen Englisch.
Tolkien wrote a brief summary of the mythology these poems were intended to represent, and that summary eventually evolved into The Silmarillion , an epic history that Tolkien started three times but never published. It was originally to be published along with the Lord of the Rings, but printing costs were very high in the post-war years, later leading to the Lord of the Rings being published in three books.Common crawl Common crawl