For the first time in paperback a fully illustrated edition of The Silmarillion with colour plates by the celebrated artist Ted Nasmith
- designed to match the rest of the Tolkien series. J R R Tolkien's SILMARILLION is the core work of the Middle-earth canon. It is in this complex & often neglected masterpiece that the entire cosmology for the background for THE HOBBIT & particularly THE LORD OF THE RINGS is documented. This new paperback volume contains fabulous tales of heroes & monsters & the history of the Silmarils
- the magical jewels produced by Feanor most gifted Lord of the Elves; it tells of the creation of Middle-earth & the coming of Men into the world; it chronicles the early epic battles between good & evil forces of light & dark which foreshadow the great conflict with Sauron the Dark Lord in THE LORD OF THE RINGS. These tales of Middle-earth were published posthumously in 1977. Tolkien worked on THE SILMARILLION all his life
- long before THE HOBBIT or LORD OF THE RINGS
- & his son & literary executor Christopher Tolkien edited the material he left behind into its current form. Complete with a series of full-colour paintings by acclaimed Tolkien artist Ted Nasmith this sumptuous new edition allows the stories within to really come alive
- from the creation of the world & the Tale of Beren & Luthien to the Fall of Numenor & the End of the First Age.