The Silver River lute). The story is based on a 4,000-year-old Chinese folktale about the creation of Night and Day, a story of star-crossed lovers. "The Silver River" is the Chinese name for what is known in the West as the "Milky Way", the galaxy of the solar system. In Chinese tradition, the Silver River bathed heaven and earth in constant light and connected both realms, allowing earthly and celestial creatures to meet. The Jade Emperor, Lord of Heaven, dreams of a chaos that plunges heaven and earth into darkness. His nightmare comes true when the mortal Cowherd (also known as Buffalo Boy
The Shaping of Middle-earth High-Elves) in the first pages of every "History of Middle-earth" volume, written by Christopher Tolkien and describing the contents of the book. The inscription in Book IV reads: The Shaping of Middle-earth The Shaping of Middle-earth (1986) is the fourth volume of Christopher Tolkien's 12-volume series "The History of Middle-earth" in which he analyses the unpublished manuscripts of his father J. R. R. Tolkien. In "The Shaping of Middle-earth" the gradual transition from the "primitive" legendaria of "The Book of Lost Tales" to what would become "The Silmarillion" is described, and it contains a text which could be seen as