[DOC] [TLE] Elf (Middle-earth) - Wikipedia [PAR] In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, Elves are one of the races that inhabit a fictional 
Earth, often called Middle-earth, and set in the remote past. They appear in The 
Hobbit and in The Lord of the Rings, but their complex history is described more 
fully in The Silmarillion ... Tolkien had been writing about Elves long before he 
published The Hobbit. [DOC] [TLE] The Silmarillion - Wikipedia [PAR] The Silmarillion /slmrln/ is a collection of J. R. R. Tolkien's mythopoeic 
works, edited ... Because J. R. R. Tolkien died before he finished revising the 
various ... The Silmarillion, like Tolkien's other Middle-earth writings, was meant 
to have ... When stars began to shine and the Elves awoke, the Valar fought 
Melkor to... [DOC] [TLE] Orc (Middle-earth) - Wikipedia [PAR] In J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy writings, Orcs are a race of creatures who are used as 
soldiers and henchmen by both the greater and lesser villains of The Silmarillion, 
The Hobbit and The Lord of the RingsMorgoth, ... In some of his unpublished 
early work, Tolkien appears to distinguish orcs from goblins. By the time of his... [DOC] [TLE] J. R. R. Tolkien - Wikipedia [PAR] John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE FRSL known by his pen name J. R. R. Tolkien, 
was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor who is best 
known as the author of the classic high-fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the 
Rings, and The Silmarillion. .... His father, however, died in South Africa of 
rheumatic fever before he could... [DOC] [TLE] List of Middle-earth Elves - Wikipedia [PAR] In J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, Elves are one of the races that inhabit a fictional 
Earth, often called Middle-earth, and set in the remote past. They appear in The 
Hobbit and in The Lord of the Rings. Their complex history is described in The 
Silmarillion, as well as in the .... Argon does not appear in the published The 
Silmarillion at all, as he only... [DOC] [TLE] The Silmarillion | The One Wiki to Rule Them All | Fandom powered ... [PAR] The Silmarillion is a collection of J. R. R. Tolkien's works that were edited ... The 
Quenta Silmarillion - The history of the events before and during the First ... 
genesis of Middle-earth and later events as told in The Hobbit and The Lord of 
the Rings. ... began to substantially revise the cosmology and its related myths, 
but he did... [DOC] [TLE] J.R.R. Tolkien Timeline  The Tolkien Society [PAR] Early Life; Oxford and Early Career; The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and 
Academic ... 24 September 1914, Tolkien writes his first identifiable Middle-earth
 ... Apr-May 1916, Tolkien was based in Otley, near Leeds as he took an army 
signalling course. ... Spring 1917, 'The Fall of Gondolin' is probably written before 
June. [DOC] [TLE] Biography  The Tolkien Society [PAR] Twice Professor of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) at the University of Oxford, he also 
wrote a number of stories, including most famously The Hobbit (1937) ... version 
of our world which he called by the Middle English name of Middle-earth. .... in 
which most of the major stories of the Silmarillion appear in their first form: tales of
... [DOC] [TLE] The Silmarillion - Wikiquote [PAR] The Silmarillion (1977) is a collection of J. R. R. Tolkien's works, edited and 
published ... of Middle Earth that Tolkien had been working on since 1917 that 
formed the ... There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilvatar; and he 
made first the ... offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else 
was made. [DOC] [TLE] J.R.R. Tolkien's The History of Middle-earth | The Green Man Review [PAR] In The History of Middle Earth (HoME), his son, Christopher, has sought to .... In 
The Silmarillion, for example, Luthien outwits Morgoth's servant

Question: In 1917 he began "The Silmarillion", a history of Middle Earth before the Hobbits appeared
Answer: J.R.R. Tolkien