The Silmarillion (Quenya: [silmaˈrilːiɔn]) is a book consisting of a collection of myths and stories in varying styles by the English writer J. R. R....

Middle-earth during the First Age. Events in Beleriand are described chiefly in his work The Silmarillion, which tells the story of the early ages of Middle-earth...

summarized in his compilation of The Silmarillion and documented in his 12-volume series The History of Middle-earth. The legendarium's origins reach back...

in parts as The Silmarillion, The Children of Húrin, Beren and Lúthien, and The Fall of Gondolin. Melkor is the most powerful of the Valar but he turns...

linked with one of the Valar. He states that they have "perpetual importance in the cosmic order", noting the statement in The Silmarillion that their joy...

The son of the author and academic J. R. R. Tolkien, he edited 24 volumes of his father's posthumously published work, including The Silmarillion and...

definition of the relationship between The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion sometime after 1955. The term came into general usage in the 1970s and 1980s...

Christ in the New Testament. In The Silmarillion, light is similarly important. It appears early on in the Years of the Lamps, with two enormous lamps...

Many of the tales within are retold in The Silmarillion, albeit in modified forms; the work also contains a summary of the events of The Lord of the Rings...

of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King; The Silmarillion appeared only after the author's death. The work is divided internally into six...