Binding: Hardcover
Description: Sauron has returned watch The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Season 2 on Prime Video. For the first time ever a very special edition of the forerunner to The Lord of the Rings illustrated throughout in color by J. R. R. Tolkien himself and with the complete text printed in two colors. The Silmarillion 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. The Silmarilli were three perfect jewels fashioned by F anor most gifted of the Elves and within them was imprisoned the last Light of the Two Trees of Valinor. But the first Dark Lord Morgoth stole the jewels and set them within his iron crown guarded in the impenetrable fortress of Angband in the north of Middle - earth. The Silmarillion is the history of the rebellion of F anor and his kindred against the gods their exile from Valinor and return to Middle - earth and their war hopeless despite all the heroism against the great Enemy. It is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back and in whose events some of them such as Elrond and Galadriel took part. The book also includes several shorter works: the Ainulindal a myth of the Creation and the Valaquenta in which the nature and powers of each of the gods is described. The Akallab th recounts the downfall of the great island kingdom of N menor at the end of the Second Age and Of the Rings of Power tells of the great events at the end of the Third Age as narrated in The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien could not publish The Silmarillion in his lifetime as it grew with him so he would leave it to his son Christopher Tolkien 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. This definitive new edition includes by way of an introduction a letter written by Tolkien in 1951 which provides a brilliant exposition of the earlier Ages and for the first time in its history is presented with Tolkien's own paintings and drawings which reveal the breathtaking grandeur and beauty of his vision of the First Age of Middle - earth.
Title: The Silmarillion Illustrated By The Author Illustrated By J. R. R. Tolkien
Author(s): Tolkien J. R. R.
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780063280779
Pages: 432 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 11/8/2022
Series: Tolkien Illustrated Editions