The Silmarillion: by J. R. R. Tolkien (Author, Illustrator)

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The Silmarillion: by J. R. R. Tolkien (Author, Illustrator)

The Silmarillion: by J. R. R. Tolkien (Author, Illustrator)

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The Silmarillion is a collection of mythopoeic works by English writer J.R.R. Tolkien, edited and published posthumously by his son, Christopher Tolkien, in 1977, with assistance from Guy Gavriel Kay. This book is the first and last book of Tolkien, the story of the first period, from the imaginary world of Tolkien, the "old drama" in which the characters of "Lord of the Rings" can also find their roots. I don’t want to get into the story too much at all nor spoil anything, but I found myself coming out of this book having thoroughly enjoying it more than I did reading The LOTR books. But I also came out thinking to myself, I really don’t understand why people can’t finish reading this book (aside from the names thing I mentioned previously). I felt this book was not given justice by people abandoning it so easily. Anyone who has read The LOTR SHOULD read this book, too. Knowing where everyone came from and how everything built up to the destroying of the One Ring came about is something EVERY LOTR fan should experience and know. Of the Rings of Power and The Third Age (basically a summary of what happened in The Hobbit, LOTR and a bit before that)

This is an epic masterpiece. This is the cosmology and history of Middle-earth. It starts with the creation of the world by the god-like being, Iluvatar. From there He creates angelic beings called Valar and Maiar. These beings interact with each other, create things, and the story perpetually unfolds. We learn of the creation of Elves, of Men, of Dwarves, and lots of other entities. There is Fëanor and the creation of the Silmarils, wars fought, and much more. Then there's Melkor: the angelic being who turns bad and falls from grace. He remains the antagonist throughout the narrative. All of it sets the stage for The Lord of the Rings timeframe.Tolkien’s most popular works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are set in Middle-earth, an imagined world with strangely familiar settings inhabited by ancient and extraordinary peoples. Through this secondary world Tolkien writes perceptively of universal human concerns – love and loss, courage and betrayal, humility and pride – giving his books a wide and enduring appeal. But after watching the first part of The Hobbit I became aware of this booked titled The Silmarillion and was very intrigued by it. I had read that it tells of the origins of things and people like Sauron – who he was and how he came about. All these things just captivated me and I felt I just had to read this book (since there was no movie counterpart). The history of middle-earth is very rich, and it stretches a very long way. Much further than the time of Sauron and the Ring. And this sense of history is only very briefly glimpsed within The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit if at all. The Silmarillion is the entire picture; it is the entire vison of Tolkien’s fantasy world. It’s a huge piece of world building, and there really is nothing else quite like it. In here he relays a huge amount of history, a truly staggering amount for a fictional world to possess. You also probably shouldn't read this if you didn't like either of the aforementioned books. You need to care for Middle-earth and its history to properly enjoy and appreciate this one.

These five parts were initially separate works, but it was J.R.R. Tolkien's express wish that they be published together. Because Tolkien died before he could complete a full rewrite of the various legends, his son Christopher used material from his father's older drafts to fill out the book. Tropes show how literature is conceptualized and created and which mixture of elements makes works and genres unique: Don´t expect an average short story collection, this is far beyond what one is used to see as a prequel, sequel, extra short story collections, or whatever else is nowaday instrumentalized in the mainstream fantasy sci-fi industrial complex to boost the sales.

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Now, I hope that some movie studio will adapt this one day (in a series of 10 movies or so that would be needed to fit all the story). During the 1980s and 1990s, Christopher Tolkien published most of his father's Middle-Earth-related writings as the 12-volume History of Middle-earth series. Ever they dwindled with the years, until their glory passed, leaving only green mounds in the grass. At length naught was left of them but a strange people wandering secretly in the wild, and other men knew not their homes nor the purpose of their journeys, and save in Imladris, in the house of Elrond, their ancestry was forgotten.



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