The Silmarillion: The legendary precursor to

"Majestic!...readers of THE HOBBIT and THE LORD OF THE RINGS...will find THE SILMARILLION a cosmology to call their own...medieval romances, fierce fairy tales and fiercer wars that ring with heraldic fury...it overwhelms the reader." TIME Those interested in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth should not be without this grand volume that tells the tragic tale of the struggle for control of the Silmarils, a struggle that would determine the history of the world long before the War of the Ring.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892, in Bloemfontein, South Africa. After serving in World War I, he embarked upon a distinguished academic career and was recognized as one of the finest philologists in the world. He was a professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, a fellow of Pembroke College, and a fellow of Merton College until his retirement in 1959. He is, however, beloved throughout the world as the creator of Middle-earth and author of such classic works as The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. He died on September 2, 1973, at the age of eighty-one.

Foreword	p. xi
Ainulindale	p. 3
Valaquenta	p. 17
Quenta Silmarillion
Of the Beginning of Days	p. 29
Of Aule and Yavanna	p. 40
Of the Coming of the Elves and the Captivity of Melkor	p. 46
Of Thingol and Melian	p. 57
Of Eldamar and the Princes of the Eldalie	p. 59
Of Feanor and the Unchaining of Melkor	p. 67
Of the Silmarils and the Unrest of the Noldor	p. 72
Of the Darkening of Valinor	p. 80
Of the Flight of the Noldor	p. 86
Of the Sindar	p. 103
Of the Sun and Moon and the Hiding of Valinor	p. 112
Of Men	p. 119
Of the Return of the Noldor	p. 123
Of Beleriand and Its Realms	p. 139
Of the Noldor in Beleriand	p. 149
Of Maeglin	p. 156
Of the Coming of Men into the West	p. 167
Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin	p. 180
Of Beren and Luthien	p. 195
Of the Fifth Battle: Nirnaeth Arnoediad	p. 229
Of Turin Turambar	p. 242
Of the Ruin of Doriath	p. 280
Of Tuor and the Fall of Gondolin	p. 294
Of the Voyage of Earendil and the War of Wrath	p. 304
Akallabeth	p. 319
Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age	p. 353
Tables
Genealogies:
The House of Finwe	p. 379
The Descendants of Olwe and Elwe	p. 380
The House of Beor	p. 381
The House of Hador and The People of Haleth	p. 382
The Sundering of the Elves	p. 383
Note on Pronunciation	p. 384
Index of Names	p. 389
Elements in Quenya and Sindarin Names	p. 445
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The Silmarillion: The legendary precursor to The Lord of the Rings

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