J. R. R. Tolkien - The Silmarillion - 1977

J. R. R. Tolkien The Silmarillion
George Allen & Unwin; 1977; first edition; 365 pages
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The Silmarillion
The Silmarillion is a collection of J. R. R. Tolkien's mythopoeic works, edited and published
posthumously by his son, Christopher Tolkien, in 1977, with assistance from Guy Gavriel
Kay, who later became a noted fantasy writer. The Silmarillion, along with J. R. R. Tolkien's
other works, forms an extensive, though incomplete, narrative that describes the universe
of Eä in which are found the lands of Valinor, Beleriand, Númenor, and Middle-earth within
which The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings take place. After the success of The Hobbit,
Tolkien's publisher requested a sequel. Tolkien sent them an early draft of The Silmarillion
but through a misunderstanding, the publisher rejected the draft without fully reading it.
The result was that Tolkien began work on "A Long Expected Party", the first chapter of
what he described at the time as "a new story about Hobbits", which became The Lord of
the Rings.