The Silmarillion
by J.R.R. Tolkien (edited by Christopher Tolkien) | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
ISBN: 0261102737 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0261102737 Global Overview for this book
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From the back cover:
"Tolkien's epic legendary precurson to THE LORD OF THE RINGS.
The Silmarilli were three perfect jewels, fashioned by Feanor, most gifted of the Elves. When the first Dark Lord, Morgoth, stole the jewels for his own ends, Feanor and his kindred took up arms and waged a long and terrible war to recover them. This is the story of their rebellion against the gods and the history of the heroic First Age of Middle-earth."
"Tolkien's epic legendary precurson to THE LORD OF THE RINGS.
The Silmarilli were three perfect jewels, fashioned by Feanor, most gifted of the Elves. When the first Dark Lord, Morgoth, stole the jewels for his own ends, Feanor and his kindred took up arms and waged a long and terrible war to recover them. This is the story of their rebellion against the gods and the history of the heroic First Age of Middle-earth."
Heading off to new readers. Enjoy!
Received today. Thanks a lot! I tried to read this as a teenager but never really got into it. I think I have more patience now, though. I have a feeling I will like it. In the meantime, I'm about halfway through Silas Marner, by George Eliot
I had been told that this book is pretty dry compared to the Lord of The Rings trilogy. I didn't find it dry at all. It's an incredibly detailed mythology. How Tolkien could have come up with such a self-sufficient mythical world is beyond me. I especially loved the letter from Tolkien to Milton Waldman, in which he explains much of the thinking behind his imaginary world. He compares the island of Númenor with Atlantis, and discusses mortality (as both a gift and a curse), and the machine age. This sentence is gold:
'I dislike Allegory – the conscious and intentional allegory – yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language. (And, of course, the more 'life' a story has the more readily will it be susceptible of allegorical interpretations: while the better a deliberate allegory is made the more nearly will it be acceptable just as a story.)Anyway all this stuff is mainly concerned with Fall, Mortality, and the Machine. With Fall inevitably, and that motive occurs in several modes. With Mortality, especially as it affects art and the creative (or as I should say, sub-creative) desire which seems to have no biological function, and to be apart from the satisfactions of plain ordinary biological life, with which, in our world, it is indeed usually at strife.'
And, on the topic of art, Here’s something Tolkienistis might find interesting
Anyway, this book is now available to anyone who would like it.
Next, I will read volume II of Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo
'I dislike Allegory – the conscious and intentional allegory – yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language. (And, of course, the more 'life' a story has the more readily will it be susceptible of allegorical interpretations: while the better a deliberate allegory is made the more nearly will it be acceptable just as a story.)Anyway all this stuff is mainly concerned with Fall, Mortality, and the Machine. With Fall inevitably, and that motive occurs in several modes. With Mortality, especially as it affects art and the creative (or as I should say, sub-creative) desire which seems to have no biological function, and to be apart from the satisfactions of plain ordinary biological life, with which, in our world, it is indeed usually at strife.'
And, on the topic of art, Here’s something Tolkienistis might find interesting
Anyway, this book is now available to anyone who would like it.
Next, I will read volume II of Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo
Lent to a friend. I'm currently reading: The Orchardist, by Amanda Coplin
