The Silmarillion

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J.R.R. Tolkien's epic legendary precursor to The Lord of the Rings.
The Silmarilli were three perfect jewels, fashioned by Feanor, most gifted of the Elves, and within them was imprisoned the last Light of the Two Trees of Valinor. "When the first Dark Lord, Morgoth, stole the jewels and set them within an iron crown in the impenetrable fortress of Angband, Feanor and his kindred took up arms against the great Enemy and waged a long and terrible war to recover them.
The Silmarillion tells the story of the rebellion by Feanor's allies against the gods, their exile from Valinor and return to Middle-earth. It is the history of the heroic First Age in Tolkien's world, the ancient drama long before the time of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
This new edition of The Silmarillion includes by way of introduction a letter written by J.R.R. Tolkien in 1951 which provides a brilliant exposition of his conception of the earlier Ages.
The cover of this edition of The Silmarillion... Tovább

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J.R.R. Tolkien's epic legendary precursor to The Lord of the Rings.
The Silmarilli were three perfect jewels, fashioned by Feanor, most gifted of the Elves, and within them was imprisoned the last Light of the Two Trees of Valinor. "When the first Dark Lord, Morgoth, stole the jewels and set them within an iron crown in the impenetrable fortress of Angband, Feanor and his kindred took up arms against the great Enemy and waged a long and terrible war to recover them.
The Silmarillion tells the story of the rebellion by Feanor's allies against the gods, their exile from Valinor and return to Middle-earth. It is the history of the heroic First Age in Tolkien's world, the ancient drama long before the time of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
This new edition of The Silmarillion includes by way of introduction a letter written by J.R.R. Tolkien in 1951 which provides a brilliant exposition of his conception of the earlier Ages.
The cover of this edition of The Silmarillion shows J.R.R. Tolkien's own , painting from July 1928, Halls of Manwe on the Mountains of the World above I Faerie. The painting shows the mountain Taniquetil, highest of the mountains
that guarded Valinor against Melkor, in the time after the destruction of the I Two Trees: for the slopes on one side of Taniquetil are bathed in sunlight, while those on the other side shine more coldly in the light of a crescent moon. On the height of the mountain, Jvlanwe and his spouse Varda dwelt in a house of white and blue marble upon a field of snow, and their halls are depicted in a glow of light at the summit. At the foot of the mountain is one of the towns of the seafaring Elves, the Tcleri, and two of their ships are visible, each with a carved I prow like the upheld neck of a swan. Vissza