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  • The Silmarillion is a tougher read than The Hobbit and even The Lord of the Rings. It's a different, more distant style. It tells of great events from the creation of Arda and the first two ages in Middle Earth. It summarizes the Third Age time of the Lord of the Rings. LOTR brought you in at the ... Continue

    The Silmarillion is a tougher read than The Hobbit and even The Lord of the Rings. It's a different, more distant style. It tells of great events from the creation of Arda and the first two ages in Middle Earth. It summarizes the Third Age time of the Lord of the Rings. LOTR brought you in at the level of the story's action, the feelings of the characters. The Silm stays out a bit, hovering over them with less detail to how the characters feel and the intimate details of the action for the most part. It drops in closer here and there but leaves a lot of room for fleshing out periods of history.

    

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"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.

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