The Silmarillion: 30th Anniversary

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of first publication, a new de
luxe edition of The Silmarillion, featuring the revised, reset
text, a colour frontispiece illustration, bound in special
materials and presented in a matching slipcase. The Silmarillion is
an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien’s world.
It is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the
Rings look back, and in whose events some of them such as Elrond
and Galadriel took part. The tales of The Silmarillion are set in
an age when Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in Middle-Earth,
and the High Elves made war upon him for the recovery of the
Silmarils, the jewels containing the pure light of Valinor.
Included in the book are several shorter works. The Ainulindale is
a myth of the Creation and in the Valaquenta the nature and powers
of each of the gods is described. The Akallabeth recounts the
downfall of the great island kingdom of Númenor at the end of the
Second Age and Of the Rings of Power tells of the great events at
the end of the Third Age, as narrated in The Lord of the Rings. For
the first time, we are publishing a deluxe edition of this pivotal
work, featuring the revised, corrected text and including, by way
of an introduction, a fascinating letter written by Tolkien in 1951
in which he gives a full explanation of how he conceived the early
Ages of Middle-earth. Quarter-bound, and set in a matching
slipcase, this attractive edition will prove a fine addition to any
Tolkien collection.