- Fantasy fiction, Short stories, Middle Earth (Imaginary place), Elves
A number-one New York Times bestseller when it was originally published, The Silmarillion is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative writing, a work whose origins stretch back to a time long before The Hobbit.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- First published
- June 1984
- Pages
- 424
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books, Harpercollins Pub Ltd, Hobbit Presse/Klett-Cotta
- Editions
- 156
- Language
- Spanish, bul, Polish, Dutch
- ISBN
- 9780061927638
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“There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made.”
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) was a major scholar of the English language, specialising in Old and Middle English. Twice Professor of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) at the University of Oxford, he also wrote a number of stories, including most famously The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-1955), which are set in a pre-historic era in an invented version of the world which he called by the Middle English name of Middle-earth. This was peopled by Men (and women), Elves, Dwarves, Trolls, Orcs (or Goblins) and of course Hobbits. He has regularly been condemned by the Eng. Lit. establishment, with honourable exceptions, but loved by literally millions of readers worldwide. In the
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