The Silmarillion (Quenya: [silmaˈrilːiɔn]) is a book consisting of a collection of myths and stories in varying styles by the English writer J. R. R....

summarized in his compilation of The Silmarillion and documented in his 12-volume series The History of Middle-earth. The legendarium's origins reach back...

Middle-earth during the First Age. Events in Beleriand are described chiefly in his work The Silmarillion, which tells the story of the early ages of Middle-earth...

work, including The Silmarillion and the 12-volume series The History of Middle-Earth, a task that took 45 years. He also drew the original maps for his...

through to the development of the stories that make up The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings. It is not a "history of Middle-earth" in the sense of...

in parts as The Silmarillion, The Children of Húrin, Beren and Lúthien, and The Fall of Gondolin. Melkor is the most powerful of the Valar but he turns...

definition of the relationship between The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion sometime after 1955. The term came into general usage in the 1970s and 1980s...

would become The Silmarillion. This volume mentions a few characters excluded elsewhere, including Findis and Irimë, the daughters of Finwë. The title of...

linked with one of the Valar. He states that they have "perpetual importance in the cosmic order", noting the statement in The Silmarillion that their joy...

Ancalagon the Black, is a dragon that appears in the legends of British writer J. R. R. Tolkien, and particularly in his novel The Silmarillion. Bred by...