Silmarilion

480 pages

Published May 11, 1993

ISBN:
978-86-81585-24-5
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The Silmarillion (Quenya: [silmaˈrilliɔn]) is a collection of mythopoeic stories by the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien, edited and published posthumously by his son Christopher Tolkien in 1977 with assistance from writer Guy Gavriel Kay. The Silmarillion, along with many of J. R. R. Tolkien's other works, forms an extensive though incomplete narrative of Eä, a fictional universe that includes the Blessed Realm of Valinor, the once-great region of Beleriand, the sunken island of Númenor, and the continent of Middle-earth, where Tolkien's most popular works—The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings—take place. After the success of The Hobbit, Tolkien's publisher Stanley Unwin requested a sequel, and Tolkien offered a draft of the stories that would later become The Silmarillion. Unwin rejected this proposal, calling the draft obscure and "too Celtic", so Tolkien began working on a completely new story; it eventually became The Lord of the Rings. The …

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In the case of Middle-Earth, I feel like my enjoyment of The Silmarillion when reading it the second time was greatly enhanced by the existence of the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies. The first time I read this book, it was hard to really grasp everything or to remember all of the names. When rereading it, I found it significantly more enjoyable being able to imagine the Middle Earth as I'd seen it in film. The Silmarillion reads basically like a history of Middle Earth. For fans of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, The Silmarillion is a must-read. A helpful companion book, I found, is Tolkien: A Dictionary by David Day. I was able to use this book when I came across a character or a name which I didn't remember, which happened often enough in the long length of time it took me …

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