Experience Middle-earth like never before in this special edition of the forerunner to The Lord of the Rings, illustrated throughout in color by J.R.R. Tolkien himself. The Silmarillion is
a doorway to the history, mythology, key characters, and defining tales
of the early ages of Middle-earth—an essential volume for any Tolkien
reader eager for a deeper journey.
The Silmarilli
were three perfect jewels, fashioned by Fëanor, most gifted of the
Elves, and within them was imprisoned the last Light of the Two Trees of
Valinor. But the first Dark Lord, Morgoth, stole the jewels and set
them within his iron crown, guarded in the impenetrable fortress of
Angband in the north of Middle-earth.
The Silmarillion
is the history of the rebellion of Fëanor and his kindred against the
gods, their exile from Valinor and return to Middle-earth, and their
war, hopeless despite all the heroism, against the great Enemy. 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 book also includes several shorter works: the Ainulindalë, a myth of the Creation, and the Valaquenta, in which the nature and powers of each of the gods is described. The Akallabêth recounts the downfall of the great island kingdom of Númenor 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.
Tolkien could not publish The Silmarillion
in his lifetime, as it grew with him, so he would leave it to his son,
Christopher Tolkien, to edit the work from many manuscripts and bring
his father’s great vision to publishable form, so completing the
literary achievement of a lifetime. This special edition presents anew
this seminal first step towards mapping out the posthumous publishing of
Middle-earth, and the beginning of an illustrious forty years and more
than twenty books celebrating his father’s legacy.
This
definitive new edition includes, by way of an introduction, a letter
written by Tolkien in 1951 which provides a brilliant exposition of the
earlier Ages, and for the first time in its history is presented with
Tolkien’s own paintings and drawings, which reveal the breathtaking
grandeur and beauty of his vision of the First Age of Middle-earth.
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