{"product_id":"9780048231390","title":"The Silmarillion","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Silmarillion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is the central stock of J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative writing, a work that he could not publish in his lifetime because it grew with him. Its origins stretch back sixty years, long before \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Hobbit,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e which was independently conceived but was caught up into what he called the \"branching acquisitive theme\" from which emerged \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Lord of the Rings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Silmarillion,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e though published last and posthumously, has the primacy, both in terms of the author's life and in terms of its content. It is the story of the First Age in Tolkien's world, the ancient dramas to which characters in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Lord of the Rings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e look back, and in whose events some of them, such as Elrond and Galadriel, took part.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe three Silmarils were jewels created by Fëanor, most gifted of the Elves. Within them was imprisoned the light of the Two Trees of Valinor before the Trees themselves were destroyed by Morgoth, the first Dark Lord. Thereafter the unsullied Light of Valinor lived on only in the Silmarils; but they were seized by Morgoth and set in his crown, guarded in the impenetrable fortress of Angband in the north of Middle-earth. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Silmarillion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is the history of the rebellion of Fëanor and his kindred against the gods, their exile from Valinor and return to Middle-earth, and their war, hopeleess despite their heroism, against the great Enemy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe book includes several other shorter works beside \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Silmarillion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e proper. Preceding it are the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAinulindalë\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e or Music of the Ainur, a myth of the Creation, and the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eValaquenta,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e in which the nature and powers of each of the gods are set forth. After \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Silmarillion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAkallabêth,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e in which is recounted the downfall of the great island kingdom of Numenor at the end of the Second Age; and at the end is the tale \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOf the Rings of Power,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e in which the matter of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLord of the Rings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is treated in the manner \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Silmarillion.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Silmarillion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e is not a romance, not a fairy tale, not a fictitious history contrived for its own sake. It is a work of unparalleled and sustained imagination, a sombre vision in the mode of myth and legend of the conflict between the desire to dominate the world and other wills and the creative power that proceeds from the development of inherent inner talents. The corruption of Fëanor, the creator of supreme beauty, by the deceits of Morgoth and by his own possessive passion for the things of his own making, and the fruits of that corruption, is one of its central themes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Silmarillion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e has been edited and prepared for publication from many manuscripts by the author's son, Christopher Tolkien.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEmblems designed by J.R.R. Tolkien.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"J. R. R. 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