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The Silmarillion (Quenya: [silmaˈrilːiɔn]) is a book consisting of a collection of myths [a] [T 1] and stories in varying styles by the English writer J. R. R. Tolkien.It was edited, partly written, and published posthumously by his son Christopher Tolkien in 1977, assisted by Guy Gavriel Kay, who became a fantasy author.
The earliest "Silmarillion" — also referred to as the "Sketch of the Mythology", this is the start of the Silmarillion proper The Quenta Noldorinwa — a further developed version of the "Sketch", the first full narrative since the legends and the only instance where Tolkien completed it.
Ainulindalë within The Silmarillion [T 2] Age Silmarillion section Description Creation: Ainulindalë: The music of creation. Melkor strikes a discordant note but is unable to prevent Eru and the singing of the Valar from creating Arda. ——— Valaquenta: A description of the pantheon of the Valar: Years of the Lamps: Quenta Silmarillion
Maglor casts a Silmaril into the Sea by Ted Nasmith, 1997. The painting was used on the front cover of HarperCollins's illustrated edition of The Silmarillion in 1999. [1]J. R. R. Tolkien describes the history of the Silmarils in The Silmarillion, published after but in fiction long preceding the events of The Lord of the Rings.
Second World War; constructing The Lord of the Rings: The Later Silmarillion. 10. [1] Morgoth's Ring (1993) 11. [2] The War of the Jewels (1994) 1948–1959 Ainulindalë, later Quenta Silmarillion, Athrabeth, Annals of Beleriand, Annals of Aman: The Lord of the Rings published 12. The Peoples of Middle-earth (1996) 1960–1973
The two time-travel novels were attempts to create a frame story for The Silmarillion. Tolkien's legendarium is the body of J. R. R. Tolkien 's mythopoeic writing, unpublished in his lifetime, that forms the background to his The Lord of the Rings , and which his son Christopher summarized in his compilation of The Silmarillion and documented ...
The title page of each volume of The History of Middle-earth has an inscription in Tengwar, written by Christopher Tolkien and describing the contents of the book. The inscription in Volume V reads "Herein are collected the oldest Tale of the Downfall of Númenor, the story of the Lost Road into the West, the Annals of Valinor and the Annals of Beleriand in a later form, the Ainulindalë, or ...
In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional legendarium, Beleriand (IPA: [bɛˈlɛ.ri.and]) was a region in northwestern Middle-earth during the First Age.Events in Beleriand are described chiefly in his work The Silmarillion, which tells the story of the early ages of Middle-earth in a style similar to the epic hero tales of Nordic literature, with a pervasive sense of doom over the character's actions.