The Silmarillion was begun in, and Tolkien worked on it, changed it, and enlarged it throughout his life. Tolkien's Silmarillion is the prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy and is an extremely well written novel, with his language painting a vivid picture in the mind of a brand new world with 4/5(38). The Silmarillion User Review - PrettyHotandTemptin - Borders. The book includes several other, shorter works beside The Silmarillion proper. The Silmarillion is the history of the rebellion of Feanor and his people against the gods, their exile in Middle-earth, and their war, hopeless despite all the heroisim of Elves and Men, against the great Enemy. The Akallabeth recounts the downfall of the great island kingdom of Numenor 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. The Ainulindale is a myth of the Creation and in the Valaquenta the nature and powers of each of the gods is described. Included in the book are several shorter works.
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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. 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 Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien’s world.