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The Silmarillion
(Illustrated Edition) by Christopher Tolkien (Editor), J.R.R.
Tolkien (Author), Ted
Nasmith (Illustrator
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- Hardcover: ; Dimensions (in inches):
1.39 x 10.19 x 6.98
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co; ISBN:
0395939461; (October 1998)
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Book Description
The
background to the entire Lord of the Rings epic, and the world of
middle-earth. The Silmarillion is Tolkien's first book and his last, the
core of his imaginative work that underlies all his writings about
Middle-earth.
Here
are the legends of the Elder Days, the central stories that give meaning
to the events of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. Tolkien began The
Silmarillion in 1917 and worked on it, changed it, and continued it
throughout his life.
Edited
by his son, Christopher Tolkien, the book finally appeared four years
after the author's death, in 1977. The three Silmarils were jewels created
by Feonor, the most gifted of the Elves, and within them gleamed the light
of the Two Trees of Valinor. But they were stolen by Morgoth, the first
Dark Lord, setting off the major war of the First Age.
The
Silmarillion includes several other works besides the main story:
Ainulindale, the myth of Creation; Valaquenta, on the nature and power of
the gods; Allakabeth, recounting the downfall of Numenor; and "Of the
Rings of Power and the third Age," the link to The Lord of the
Rings.
As
Christopher Tolkien describes it: "The entire history is set forth
from the Music of the Ainur in which the world began to the passing of the
ringbearers from the Havens of Mithlond at the end of the Third Age."
Now illustrated for the first time with original paintings by the renowned
artist Ted Nasmith, this gift edition is a companion to the illustrated
editions of The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
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