An edition of The Silmarillion (1800)

The Silmarillion

1st American ed. (6)
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An edition of The Silmarillion (1800)

The Silmarillion

1st American ed. (6)
  • 3.95 ·
  • 91 Ratings
  • 516 Want to read
  • 38 Currently reading
  • 134 Have read

A number-one New York Times bestseller when it was originally published, The Silmarillion is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative writing, a work whose origins stretch back to a time long before The Hobbit.

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Language
English
Pages
365

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1977, Houghton Mifflin Company
in English - 1st American ed. (6)
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1977, Texto Online
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First Sentence

"There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Iluvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made."

Table of Contents

Ainulindalё
Valaquenta
Quenta Silmarillion
Chapter 1. Of the Beginning of Days
Chapter 2. Of Aulё and Yavanna
Chapter 3. Of the Coming of the Elves and the Captivity of Melkor
Chapter 4. Of Thingol and Melian
Chapter 5. Of Eldamar and the Princes of the Eldaliё
Chapter 6. Of Fёanor and the Unchaining of Melkor
Chapter 7. Of the Silmarils and the Unrest of the Noldor
Chapter 8. Of the Darkening of Valinor
Chapter 9. Of the Flight of the Noldor
Chapter 10. Of the Sindar
Chapter 11. Of the Sun and Moon and the Hiding of Valinor
Chapter 12. Of Men
Chapter 13. Of the Return of the Noldor
Chapter 14. Of Beleriand and Its Realms
Chapter 15. Of the Noldor in Beleriand
Chapter 16. Of Maeglin
Chapter 17. Of the Coming of Men Into the West
Chapter 18. Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin
Chapter 19. Of Beren and Lúthien
Chapter 20. Of the Fifth Battle: Nirnaeth Arnoediad
Chapter 21. Of Túrin Turambar
Chapter 22. Of the Ruin of Doriath
Chapter 23. Of Tuor and the Fall of Gondolin
Chapter 24. Of the Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath
Akallabêth
Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age

Edition Notes

Includes index.

Copyright Date
1977

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.9/12
Library of Congress
PZ3.T576 Si3, PR6039.O32 Si3, PR6039.O32 S5 1977

Contributors

Editor
Christopher Tolkien
Illustrator
Ted Nasmith
Editor
Guy Kay

The Physical Object

Pagination
365 p. :
Number of pages
365

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4541256M
Internet Archive
silmarillion0000tolk_l3l9
ISBN 10
0395257301
LCCN
77008025
Library Thing
3203319
Goodreads
77673

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