Great Tales

The Great Tales were among the most important tales of the First Age of Arda.
All of them are covered within The History of Middle-earth, The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales, but recently, lone publications of some of them have been made: The Children of Húrin, Beren and Lúthien, and The Fall of Gondolin.
==Publications and chapters==
*The Children of Húrin (2007)
*Beren and Lúthien (2017)
*The Fall of Gondolin (2018)
*The Tale of Eärendel (a chapter is included with The Fall of Gondolin publication, and The Book of Lost Tales Part Two.)
==Background==
The Fall of Gondolin, "...together with Beren and Lúthien and The Children of Húrin, he regarded it as one of the three ‘Great Tales’ of the Elder Days."The Fall of Gondolin, Press Release
Tolkien also referred to the 'four great tales' as the Great Saga or The Lays of the Children of Atani.The History of Middle-earth, Vol. XII The Peoples of Middle-earth: "As is seen in The Silmarillion. This is not an Eldarin title or work. It is a compilation, probably made in Númenor, which includes (in prose) the four great tales or lays of the heroes of the Atani, of which The Children of Hurin was probably composed already in Beleriand in the First Age, but necessarily is preceded by an account of Fëanor and his making of the Silmarils. All how ever are 'Mannish' works."
He originally envisioned writing several stories from the entire Quenta Silmarillion as full, standalone stories. 
:"I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme, and sketched."The SilmarillionThe Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, Letter 131
Christopher Tolkien states in the forward to The Children of Húrin:
:It is seen from this reminiscence that from far back it was a part of his conception of what came to be called The Silmarillion that some of the ‘Tales’ should be told in much fuller form; and indeed in that same letter of 1951 he referred expressly to the three stories which I have mentioned above as being much the longest in The Book of Lost Tales. Here he called the tale of Beren and Lúthien ‘the chief of the stories of The Silmarillion’, and of it he said: ‘the story is (I think a beautiful and powerful) heroic-fairy-romance, receivable in itself with only a very general vague knowledge of the background. But it is also a fundamental link in the cycle, deprived of its full significance out of its place therein.’ ‘There are other stories almost equally full in treatment,’ he went on, ‘and equally independent, and yet linked to the general history’: these are The Children of Húrin and The Fall of Gondolin.
:It thus seems unquestionable, from my father’s own words, that if he could achieve final and finished narratives on the scale he desired, he saw the three ‘Great Tales’ of the Elder Days (Beren and Lúthien, the Children of Húrin, and the Fall of Gondolin) as works sufficiently complete in themselves as not to demand knowledge of the great body of legend known as The Silmarillion.Tolkien, J. R. R. The Children of Húrin (pp. 11-12). Harper Collins, Inc.. Kindle Edition.
Christopher also stated in the The War of the Jewels:
:The completion of the Quenta Silmarillion remained an aim; but the 'great tales', vastly developed from their original forms, from which its later chapters should be derived were never achieved.
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Groot Verhale
Albanian 	Tregime e madhe
Arabic 	حكايات العظمى
Armenian 	Մեծ պատմություններ
Assamese 	গ্ৰেট টেলছ
Azerbaijani 	Böyük Nağıllar
Basque 	Ipuinak Handia
Belarusian Cyrillic	Вялікія казкі
Bengali 	বৃহৎ গল্প
Bosnian 	Velika Bajke
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Велики приказки
Catalan 	Gran Contes
Chinese 	大故事
Corsican 	Grandi Storii
Croatian 	Sjajne priče
Czech 	Velké příběhy
Danish 	Storhistorier
Dutch 	Groot Vertellingen
Esperanto 	Grandaj Rakontoj
Estonian 	Suur lugusid
Finnish 	Suuria-Tarinoita
French 	Grande Contes
Frisian 	Grutte Ferhalen (Western)
Galician 	Gran Contos
Georgian 	დიდი მოთხრობები
German 	Großgeschichten
Greek 	Μεγάλες Ιστορίες
Gujarati 	મહાન વાર્તાઓ
Hebrew 	סיפורים הגדולות
Hindi 	विशाल कहानियाँ
Hungarian 	Nagy-mesék
Icelandic 	Stóra-Sögur
Indonesian 	Cerita-cerita Besar
Irish Gaelic 	Scéalta Mhór
Italian 	Grandi Racconti
Japanese 	グレートテイルズ
Kannada 	ಮಹಾ ಕಥೆಗಳು
Kazakh 	Ұлы әңгімелер (Cyrillic) Ulı äñgimeler (Latin)
Konkani 	ग्रेट टेल्स
Korean 	그레이트브 테일즈
Kurdish 	چیرۆکە گەورەکان (Sorani) Çîrokên Mezin (Kurmanji)
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	Улуу жомоктору ບົດເລື່ອງ
Latin 	Magnam Historiarum
Latvian 	Liel pasakas
Lithuanian 	Puikus istorijas
Luxembourgish 	Grouss Geschichten
Macedonian Cyrillic	Големи приказни
Malayalam 	മഹത്തായ കഥകൾ
Malaysian 	Cerita-cerita Besar
Marathi 	ग्रेट टेल्स
Meiteilon 	ꯑꯆꯧꯕꯥ ꯋꯥꯔꯤꯁꯤꯡ꯫
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Их түүхүүд
Nepalese 	महान कथाहरू
Norwegian 	Storfortellinger
Pashto 	عالي کیسې
Persian 	داستان ها کبیر
Polish 	Wielka opowieści
Portuguese 	Grã Contos
Russian 	Великие Россказни
Serbian 	Велике приче (Cyrillic) Velike priče (Latin)
Sindhi 	عظيم ڪهاڻيون
Sinhalese 	මහා කතාවක්
Slovak 	Veľký príbehy
Slovenian 	Velike zgodbe
Spanish 	Gran Cuentos
Swedish 	Storsagor
Tajik Cyrillic 	Ҳикояҳо Кабир
Tamil 	கிரேட் கதைகள்
Telugu 	మహా కథలు
Thai 	นิทานที่ยอดเยี่ยม
Turkish 	Büyük Öyküler
Turkmen 	Ajaýyp ertekiler
Urdu 	عظیم کہانیاں
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Великі казки
Vietnamese 	Đại Những câu chuyện
Welsh 	Chwedlau Fawr
Yiddish 	גרויסמעשיות
==References==
Category:Tales
Category:Disambiguation