The Lays of Beleriand

The Lays of Beleriand, published in 1985, is the third volume of Christopher Tolkien's twelve-volume series, The History of Middle-earth.
==Contents==
*A Note to the Reader
*Preface
*I. The Lay of the Children of Húrin
**Prologue (Húrin and Morgoth)
**I. Túrin's Fostering
**II. Beleg
**III. Failivrin
**Second Version of the Lay:
**I. (Húrin and Morgoth)
**II. Túrin's Fostering
*II. Poems Early Abandoned
**(i) The Flight of the Noldoli
**(ii) Fragment of an alliterative Lay of Eärendel
**(iii) The Lay of the Fall of Gondolin
*III. The Lay of Leithian
**Canto I - Canto XIV
**Unwritten Cantos
**Appendix: Commentary by C. S. Lewis
*IV. The Lay of Leithian Recommenced
*Note on the original submission of the Lay of Leithian and The Silmarillionin 1937
*Glossary of Obsolete, Archaic, and Rare Words and Meanings
==Synopsis==
The book gives the long "lays" or poems that J.R.R. Tolkien wrote about the sagas of Túrin Turambar and of Beren and Lúthien, which are known as The Lay of the Children of Húrin and The Lay of Leithian (or Release from Bondage). Although Tolkien abandoned both of these before their respective ends, they were many stanzas in length, lasting each for over ten pages.
The first tale is in alliterative verse, and the second is in rhyming couplets. Christopher Tolkien presents two versions of both, and in addition, a few shorter, likewise abandoned poems by his father.
The first versions of the long lays fit chronologically with Tolkien's earliest writings, as recounted in The Book of Lost Tales, but the later versions are contemporary with the writing of The Lord of the Rings.
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Die Ballades van Beleriand
Albanian 	Baladat e Beleriand
Arabic 	القصص من بيليرياند
Armenian 	Բելերիանդ բալլադներին
Belarusian Cyrillic	Балады Белерианда
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Песни за Белерианд
Catalan 	Les balades de Belériand
Chinese 	貝爾蘭的歌謠
Corsican 	U canti di Beleriand
Croatian 	Epovi Belerianda
Czech 	Balady Beleriandu
Danish 	Balladerne fra Beleriand
Dutch 	De verhalen van Beleriand
Esperanto 	La baladoj de Beleriand
Estonian 	Beleriandi ballaadid
Finnish 	Beleriandin lauluja
French 	Les Lais du Beleriand
Georgian 	ბალადები ბელერიანდზე
German 	Die Lieder von Beleriand
Greek 	Ο Μπαλάντες του Βελεριανδ
Gujarati 	બેલેરીઅન્ડનું લોકગીતો
Hebrew 	הבלדות של בעלעריאַנד
Hindi 	बेलेरिअन्द के गीत
Hungarian 	Beleriand dalai
Indonesian 	Balada-balada Beleriand
Italian 	I lai del Beleriand
Kazakh 	Белеріанд балладалар (Cyrillic) Beleriand balladalar (Latin)
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	Бэлэрианд балладалары
Latvian 	Belerianda balāžu
Lithuanian 	Beleriando giesmės
Macedonian Cyrillic	Балади на Белерианд
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Белерианд-ийн дуу ?
Nepalese 	बेलेरिया को गीतहरू
Norwegian 	Det Ballader av Beleriand
Polish 	Pieśni Beleriandu
Portuguese 	As baladas do Beleriand
Punjabi 	ਬਾਲਾਡੇਜ਼ ਦਾ ਬੈਲੇਰੀਂਡ
Romanian 	Baladele Beleriandului
Russian 	Баллады Белерианда
Serbian 	Баладе Белеријанда (Cyrillic) Balade Belerijanda (Latin)
Slovak 	Balady Beleriandu
Slovenian 	Balade Belerianda
Spanish 	Las baladas de Beleriand
Swedish 	Balladerna av Beleriand
Thai 	ลำนำแห่งเบเลริอันด์
Turkish 	Beleriand'ın Şarkıları
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Балади Белеріанда
Welsh 	Baledi Beleriand
Yiddish 	די באַלאַדס פון בעלעריאַנד
fr:Les Lais du Beleriand
pl:Pieśni Beleriandu
it:I Lai del Beleriand
ru:Баллады Белерианда
Category:The History of Middle-earth
Category:Primary literature
Category:Middle-earth source literature