The Silmarillion

by

Mass Market Paperback, 458 pages

English language

Published July 12, 1982 by Ballantine Books.

ISBN:
9780345306920
OCLC Number:
25586471

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4 stars (3 reviews)

A number-one New York Times bestseller when it was originally published, The Silmarillion is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative writing, a work whose origins stretch back to a time long before The Hobbit.

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4 stars

While this book features the finest world building in all of fiction and perhaps even all of English literature, its obsession with detail makes it a difficult read. It is not something I should have attempted reading at age 13 (did not finish at about 35%), but restarting it was one of the finest decisions I've ever made.

Subjects

  • Fantasy - General
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  • Fiction - Fantasy