The Silmarillion

By J.R.R. Tolkien

Subjects: Short stories, Middle Earth (Imaginary place), Fiction, fantasy, epic, silmaril, Bilbo Baggins (Fictitious character), Elves, Fantasy fiction, English Fantasy fiction, Engelse fiksie, Middle earth (imaginary place), fiction, fantasy, Fiction, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), English literature

Description: 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.