The Silmarillion - Hardcover

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J.R.R.Tolkien (1892-1973) was a distinguished academic, though he is best known for writing The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, plus other stories and essays. His books have been translated into over 80 languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide.

Ted Nasmith is a freelance illustrator living just outside Toronto, Canada, with his wife Donna and three children. The works of Tolkien have had a profound effect on him and he has enjoyed the challenge of interpreting the characters and world of Tolkien for over twenty years. He has produced several Tolkien Calendars and recently illustrated ‘The Silmarillion’.

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The tales of 'The Silmarillion' were the underlying inspiration and source of J. R. R. Tolkien's imaginative writing; he worked on the book throughout his life, but never brought it to a final form. Long preceding in its origins 'The Lord of the Rings', it is the story of the First Age of Tolkien'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 title 'Silmarillion' is shortened from 'Quenta Silmarillion'. 'The History of the Silmarils', the three great jewels created by Fëanor, most gifted of the Elves, in which he imprisoned the light of the Two Trees that illumined Valinor, the land of the gods. When Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, destroyed the Trees, that light lived on only in the Silmarils; and Morgoth seized them and set them in his crown, guarded in the impenetrable fortress of Angband in the north of Middle-earth. 'The Silmarillion' is the history of the rebellion of Fëanor and his people against the gods, their exile in Middle-earth, and their war, hopeless despite all the heroism of Elves and Men, against the great Enemy.

This new edition of 'The Silmarillion' contains 20 full colour illustrations specially commissioned from artist Ted Nasmith.

'The Silmarillion' was first published in 1977, to great acclaim:
"How, given little over a half century of work, did one man become the creative equivalent of a people?"
THE GUARDIAN

"At times rises to the greatness of true myth."
FINANCIAL TIMES

"A creation of singular beauty… magnificent in its best moments."
WASHINGTON POST

"grim, tragic, brooding and beautiful book, shot through with heroism and hope… its power is almost that of mysticism."
TORONTO GLOBE & MAIL