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The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien (Paperback, 1999)

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Designed to take fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings deeper into the myths and legends of Middle-earth. The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien's world. It is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back, and in whose events some of them such as Elrond and Galadriel took part. The tales of The Silmarillion are set in an age when Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in Middle-Earth, and the High Elves made war upon him for the recovery of the Silmarils, the jewels containing the pure light of Valinor. Included in the book are several shorter works. The Ainulindale is a myth of the Creation and in the Valaquenta the nature and powers of each of the gods is described. The Akallabeth recounts the downfall of the great island kingdom of Numenor at the end of the Second Age and Of the Rings of Power tells of the great events at the end of the Third Age, as narrated in The Lord of the Rings. This pivotal work features the revised, corrected text and includes, by way of an introduction, a fascinating letter written by Tolkien in 1951 in which he gives a full explanation of how he conceived the early Ages of Middle-earth.

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Publisher
Harpercollins Publishers
ISBN-13
9780261102736
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95019661

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Book Title
The Silmarillion
Author
J.R.R. Tolkien
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Fantasy
Number of Pages
480 Pages

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178mm
Item Width
111mm
Item Weight
260g

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J. R. R. Tolkien
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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by stasio_d21 Jan, 2014
If you're in the right mood
The first fantasy book I ever read and still my all-time favorite. That said, it's not for everybody. It's been compared to the Old Testament, and that's still the best analogy; if you think that Moses leading his people out of Egypt is the stuff of grand drama, then this is the book for you, Tolkien fan or not. If you don't, then you probably ought to give The Silmarillion a pass, no matter how much you liked Tolkien's other work. This is not Lord of the Rings Plus; it's quite literally the Old Testament for Middle Earth, beginning with the creation of the world and ending just before the War of the Ring, which forms little more than a footnote in the more-than-epic sweep of time portrayed.
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by claireywoods05 Mar, 2014
A book worth reading, takes time for it to sink in, but it will be worth it
Im still reading the book, it one of those books (for me) it takes a while for it to sink in, i wanted to buy this because it talks about the days before sauron made his ring, but also about the way tolkien writes about the character/s in a way that isnt written nowadays, once i have finished reading the book and re-read it everything will sink in and become a little more clearer It is a book to buy if you are interested in the lord of the rings and the hobbit and wanting to know more about how the ring became to be and how everything changed
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