The Silmarillion

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ISBN: 9780008433949
author: J.R.R. Tolkien / Christopher Tolkien / Ted Nasmith
publishing house: HarperCollins
publication date: 2021 -3
language: English
binding: Hardcover
price: £30.00
number of pages: 358

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<strong>Including brand-new paintings, this is a fully illustrated new edition of the forerunner to <em>The Lord of the Rings</em>. <em>The Silmarillion</em> fills in the background which lies behind the more popular work, and gives the earlier history of Middle-earth, introducing some of the key characters.</strong><br /><br /><em>The Silmarillion</em> is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien’s imaginative writing, a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth, through the Second Age and the rise of Sauron, to the end of the War of the Ring.<br /><br />They are set in an age when Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in Middle-earth, and the Elves made war upon him in his impenetrable fortress in Angband for the recovery of the Silmarils, three jewels containing the last remaining pure light of Valinor, seized by Morgoth and set in his iron crown.<br /><br />Accompanying these tales are several shorter works. The <em>Ainulindalë</em> is a myth of the Creation and in the <em>Valaquenta</em> the nature and powers of the gods is described. The <em>Akallabêth</em> recounts the downfall of the great island kingdom of Númenor at the end of the Second Age and <em>Of the Rings of Power</em> tells of the great events at the end of the Third Age, as told in <em>The Lord of the Rings</em>.<br /><br />Tolkien could not publish <em>The Silmarillion</em> in his lifetime, as it grew with him, so he would leave it to his son, Christopher, 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.<br /><br />Also included is a letter by J.R.R. Tolkien written in 1951 which provides a brilliant exposition of the earlier Ages, and almost 50 full-colour paintings by Ted Nasmith, including some which appear here for the first time.

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