Annals of Valinor is the sixth section of the The Shaping of Middle-earth, the fourth volume of The History of Middle-earth. Book contents: * 1. Prose fragments following the Lost Tales — brief, uncompleted texts which continue on from The Book of Lost Tales * 2. The earliest "Silmarillion" — also referred to as the "Sketch of the Mythology", this is the start of the Silmarillion proper * 3. The Quenta — a further developed version of the "Sketch", the first full narrative since the Tales * 4. The first "Silmarillion" map — a reproduction of the first map of Beleriand * 5. The Ambarkanta — cosmological essays, maps, and diagrams * 6. The earliest Annals of Valinor * 7. The earliest Annals of Beleriand