The Silmarillion

J.R.R. Tolkien

ISBN 10: 0345325818 / ISBN 13: 9780345325815

Verlag: Del Rey January 2002, 2002

Beschreibung

Support Small Business by buying this book! New and unread. Editor-Christopher Tolkien. About the book: The must-have companion to the epic masterpiece The Lord of the Rings The Silmarillion is Tolkienâ s first book and his last. Long preceding in its origins The Lord of the Rings, it is the story of the First Age of Tolkienâ s world, the ancient drama to which characters in The Lord of the Rings look back, and in which some of them, such as Elrond and Galadriel, took part. The Silmarillion was begun in 1917, and Tolkien worked on it, changed it, and enlarged it throughout his life. Edited by his son, Christopher Tolkien, the book finally appeared four years after the authorâ s death.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Silmarillion
• Verlag: Del Rey January 2002
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0345325818
• ISBN-13: 9780345325815
• Einband: Mass Market Paperback
• Auflage: 2. Auflage
• Zustand: New
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Inhaltsangabe

The legendary precursor to The Lord of the Rings

“A creation of singular beauty . . . magnificent in its best moments.”—The Washington Post

Set primarily in the First Age of Middle-earth, The Silmarillion contains the legend of the creation of the world and an account of the Elder Days. It is the ancient drama remembered by Elrond and Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings, and the harrowing origin of the adventure that ends ages later with Frodo and the One Ring.

At the story’s heart are the three Silmarils, jewels that held within them the Light of the Two Trees of Valinor, and Fëanor, the most gifted of elven artificers. When the Two Trees are destroyed, the Silmarils become coveted, setting into motion events that lead to the rebellion of Fëanor and his kindred against the gods, their exile from Valinor, and their hopeless war against the greatest enemy Middle-earth has ever known: Morgoth.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892, in Bloemfontein, South Africa. After serving in World War I, he embarked upon a distinguished academic career and was recognized as one of the finest philologists in the world. He was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, a fellow of Pembroke College, and a fellow of Merton College until his retirement in 1959. He is, however, beloved throughout the world as the creator of Middle-earth and author of such classic works as The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. He died on September 2, 1973, at the age of eighty-one.