Les incipits : TOLKIEN, The Silmarillion.

There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Iluvatar ; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made.
(Ainulindalë — The Music of the Ainur)

J.R.R. TOLKIEN / Christopher TOLKIEN. The Silmarillion. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1977.