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The Silmarillion
by J.R.R. Tolkien
from Houghton Mifflin

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Middle Earth Bible
  This is pretty much the Bible of the world of Middle Earth. It isn't written so much as a story as some of Tolkien's other works, but it has a nearly-documentary style, as if everything in it is real (and it is, for all the detail that goes into the story). Here comes history and mythology, all romantically tied together in ultimate fantasy along with all the proper notest that would attend any other historical work. There is not a lot of detail in the stories, but that does not make them any less... more info

• GREAT BOOK -- terrible mass-market edition.
  This is not a literary review. This review is about the MASS-MARKET PAPERBACK printing/edition.
  I have the version with a gray/silver cover... WASTE OF MONEY. This is a wonderful companion for the Lord of the Rings, but this printing is terrible. It's tiny, stiff, and cheap. The paper is yellowish with tiny, poorly printed font.
  If you love LOTR and Tolkien, then buy this book -- just DON'T buy the mass-market paperback, keep looking for a better version.

• Tolkien's Middle-Earth history
  The Silmarillion is Tolkien's original background story for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. This book does not read like a typical novel though, and really is for the serious Tolkien fan. It's a mythology, and a wonderfully developed one at that. Here we have the history of Middle-Earth going back to the First Age. It's a tale of creation and long ago origins, the elves and dwarves, Morgoth the Dark Lord, the forging of the Nine rings and the creation of the One Ring that is the basis for the story,... more info

• And Now the First of the Story
  If you liked Lord of the Ring's and want to know more about this world then this is Well Worth a Read.

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