The Silmarillion
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: first export edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: no price on dj, minor rubbing on the front cover; fold out map at rear intact; misprint **asssembled** on page 190, no full stop at the end of **feanor** on page 330 and the 'and' is in italic on page 352.
Before the Shire, before the One Ring, before even the First Age of Middle-earth as we know it, there was fire, song, and the will of gods — The Silmarillion chronicles the mythological creation of Tolkien's legendary world, tracing the grand cosmic drama from the Music of the Ainur through the tragic wars of Elves, Men, and Valar over three hallowed jewels of imperishable light. This is the primordial scripture of Middle-earth: vast in scope, breathtaking in ambition, and suffused with the grandeur of Norse and Finnish epic tradition. It presents the genealogies, battles, and heartbreaking romances — including the immortal tales of Beren and Lúthien, and the doom of Turin Turambar — that underpin every event in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. Tolkien's prose here achieves a register unlike anything in his other works — grave, ceremonial, and luminous, deliberately echoing the cadences of ancient scripture and saga. Edited posthumously by his son Christopher Tolkien, the work stands as the most complete realisation of a mythological universe constructed by a single imagination in the history of literature. Scholars and devoted readers alike have recognised it as the foundation stone upon which an entire secondary world was built, brick by painstaking brick, over a lifetime. For those who have ever wondered what lay at the very heart of Middle-earth's deepest darkness and most ancient light, this volume holds the answer — though the truths it reveals may prove more terrible and more beautiful than anything imagined.
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
Format: Hardback
Published: 1977, George Allen & Unwin; printed by William Clowes & Sons
Genre: Fantasy
Edition: first export edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: no price on dj, minor rubbing on the front cover; fold out map at rear intact; misprint **asssembled** on page 190, no full stop at the end of **feanor** on page 330 and the 'and' is in italic on page 352.
Before the Shire, before the One Ring, before even the First Age of Middle-earth as we know it, there was fire, song, and the will of gods — The Silmarillion chronicles the mythological creation of Tolkien's legendary world, tracing the grand cosmic drama from the Music of the Ainur through the tragic wars of Elves, Men, and Valar over three hallowed jewels of imperishable light. This is the primordial scripture of Middle-earth: vast in scope, breathtaking in ambition, and suffused with the grandeur of Norse and Finnish epic tradition. It presents the genealogies, battles, and heartbreaking romances — including the immortal tales of Beren and Lúthien, and the doom of Turin Turambar — that underpin every event in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. Tolkien's prose here achieves a register unlike anything in his other works — grave, ceremonial, and luminous, deliberately echoing the cadences of ancient scripture and saga. Edited posthumously by his son Christopher Tolkien, the work stands as the most complete realisation of a mythological universe constructed by a single imagination in the history of literature. Scholars and devoted readers alike have recognised it as the foundation stone upon which an entire secondary world was built, brick by painstaking brick, over a lifetime. For those who have ever wondered what lay at the very heart of Middle-earth's deepest darkness and most ancient light, this volume holds the answer — though the truths it reveals may prove more terrible and more beautiful than anything imagined.