THE SILMARILLION
TOLKIEN, J.R.R.
Published by Allen & Unwin, 1977
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First edition. Signed by Christopher Tolkien on the front free endpaper. Navy cloth, lettered gilt to the spine, in original dustwrapper, with emblems designed by J.R.R. Tolkien. A fine copy in a very near fine, price-clipped,dustwrapper, bright and crisp with just a little fading to the uppermost part of the spine and upper cover. Folding map of Beleriand printed in black and red. A rare example of a signed first edition of The Silmarillion. Tolkien's life work, begun during the First World War, worked on intermittently before, during and after the publications of The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord Of The Rings (1954-55).After Tolkien's death in 1973, the work was still not completed. Many manuscripts for sections of it survived, and these multi-layered documents, often amended and revised over many years, had to be worked through by his son Christopher Tolkien and Guy Gavriel Kay. By late 1976 the disparate source material had been honed into the text of a single, coherent work. Both domestic and export copies were printed simultaneously in Britain, numbering 200,000 in all, though copies signed by the book's editor and author of the foreword are few. Seller Inventory # 45795
Bibliographic Details
Title: THE SILMARILLION
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Publication Date: 1977
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The forerunner to The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion tells the earlier history of Middle-earth, recounting the events of the First and Second Ages, and introducing some of the key characters, such as Galadriel, Elrond, Elendil and the Dark Lord, Sauron. The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkiens 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 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. This pivotal work features the revised, corrected text and includes, 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. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR000771649
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HarperCollins Publishers, United Kingdom, London, 1999
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