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The Silmarillion / J.R.R. Tolkien ; edited by Christopher Tolkien.
Van Pelt Library PR6039.O32 S5 1977b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baggins, Bilbo--Fiction.
- Baggins, Bilbo.
- Middle Earth (Imaginary place)--Fiction.
- Middle Earth (Imaginary place).
- Elves--Fiction.
- Elves.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Fantasy fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Elsesser, Korth (bookplate) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 365 pages : map (1 folded), genealogical tables ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1977]
- Summary:
- From the Publisher: "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." 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.
- Contents:
- Foreword
- Ainulindale
- Valaquenta
- Quenta Silmarillion
- 1: Of the beginning of days
- 2: Of Aule and Yavanna
- 3: Of the coming of the elves and the captivity of Melkor
- 4: Of Thingol and Melian
- 5: Of Eldamar and the Princes of the Eldalië
- 6: Of Feanor and the unchaining of Melkor
- 7: Of the Silmarils and the unrest of the Noldor
- 8: Of the darkening of Valinor
- 9: Of the flight of the Noldor
- 10: Of the Sindar
- 11: Of the sun and moon and the hiding of Valinor
- 12: Of men
- 13: Of the return of the Noldor
- 14: Of Beleriand and its realms
- 15: Of the Noldor in Beleriand
- 16: Of Maeglin
- 17: Of the coming of men into the west
- 18: Of the ruin of Beleriand and the fall of Fingolfin
- 19: Of Beren and Lúthien
- 20: Of the fifth battle: Nirnaeth Arnoediad
- 21: Of Túrin Turambar
- 22: Of the ruin of Doriath
- 23: Of Tuor and the fall of Gondolin
- 24: Of the voyage of Eärendil and the war of wrath
- Akallabeth
- Of the rings of power and the third age
- Tables
- Genealogies: 1: House of Finwë
- 2: Descendants of Olwë and Elwë
- 3: House of Bëor
- 4 and 5: House of Hador and the people of Haleth
- Sundering of the elves
- Note on pronunciation
- Index of names
- Appendix: Elements in Quenya and Sindarin names.
- Notes:
- Novel.
- Includes index.
- Jacket drawing by J.R.R. Tolkien.
- Includes a fold-out map of Beleriand.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has ms. note "Christmas 1977 Seek and you shall find and may you be [forever] -- outward bound --- From Dad + Dayle" on front pastedown.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has bookplate "Korth Elsesser" on front flyleaf.
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Adams Collection copy has dustjacket
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 181937
- Other Format:
- Online version: Tolkien, J.R.R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973. Silmarillion.
- ISBN:
- 0395257301
- 9780395257302
- OCLC:
- 2966874
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