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- Print Length: 432 pages
- For the first time ever, a very special edition of the forerunner to The Lord of the Rings, illustrated throughout in color by J.R.R. Tolkien himself and with the complete text printed in two colors. The Silmarillion fills in the background which lies behind the more popular work, and gives the earlier history of Middle-earth, introducing some of the key characters.
- 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 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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I was also repelled by it my first time, and now it's my favorite of the series.
It's written in an elevated register similar to that of the King James Bible.
It's Tolkien's true writerly voice.
He loved the cadence of sacred, ancient language, and that love permeates the biblical English of the Silmarillion.
if you adjust to its archaic style you'll find the prose riveting, dignified, and even beautiful.
Like the Bible it also telescopes into and out of detail. A synoptic chapter about family lines will be followed by a hero romance, which gives the book an intriguing rhythm.
It also addresses dark adult themes more directly than LOTR, giving Tolkien's world a psychological completeness otherwise missing.
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