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...

through to the development of the stories that make up The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings. It is not a "history of Middle-earth" in the sense of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Tolkien's The Fall of Gondolin is one of the stories which formed the basis for a section in his posthumously-published work The Silmarillion, with a version...