Ainulindalë

Quenya: Ainu-song, -music

The Music of the Ainur.

The Great Music, developed and sung by the Ainur to the themes declared by Ilúvatar. In this music the world was foreseen and later brought into existence by Ilúvatars act of creation: Eä.

The name Ainulindalë is also used for the account of the creation of Eä, which is said to have first been written by Rúmil in the FirstAge, brought to Middle-earth by the exiles of the Noldor and preserved by Bilbo's translation in the Red Book of Westmarch.