For the first time ever, a very special edition of the forerunner
to The Lord of the Rings, illustrated throughout in colour by
J.R.R. Tolkien himself and with the complete text printed in two
colours. 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. But the first Dark
Lord, Morgoth, stole the jewels and set them within his iron crown,
guarded in the impenetrable fortress of Angband in the north of
Middle-earth. The Silmarillion is the history of the rebellion of
Feanor and his kindred against the gods, their exile from Valinor
and return to Middle-earth, and their war, hopeless despite all the
heroism, against the great Enemy. It is the ancient drama to which
the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back, and in whose
events some of them such as Elrond and Galadriel took part. The
book also includes several shorter works: the Ainulindale, a myth
of the Creation, and the Valaquenta, in which the nature and powers
of each of the gods is described. The Akallabeth recounts the
downfall of the great island kingdom of Numenor at the end of the
Second Age, and Of the Rings of Power tells of the great events at
the end of the Third Age, as narrated in The Lord of the Rings.
Tolkien could not publish The Silmarillion in his lifetime, as it
grew with him, so he would leave it to his son, Christopher
Tolkien, to edit the work from many manuscripts and bring his
father's great vision to publishable form, so completing the
literary achievement of a lifetime. This special edition presents
anew this seminal first step towards mapping out the posthumous
publishing of Middle-earth, and the beginning of an illustrious
forty years and more than twenty books celebrating his father's
legacy. This definitive new edition includes, by way of an
introduction, a letter written by Tolkien in 1951 which provides a
brilliant exposition of the earlier Ages, and for the first time in
its history is presented with J.R.R. Tolkien's own paintings and
drawings, which reveal the breathtaking grandeur and beauty of his
vision of the First Age of Middle-earth.
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