J. R. R. Tolkien THE SILMARILLION First Export Edition 1977 Clowes
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J. R. R. Tolkien THE SILMARILLION First Export Edition 1977 Clowes
First export edition first print hardback of THE SILMARILLION by J. R. R. Tolkien (edited by Christopher Tolkien) and published by George Allen & Unwin in 1977. No price on dust jacket. Fold-out map to the rear, printed by William Clowes & Sons and includes the error on page 330, line four (missing full stop after Feanor) and The Realms of the Noldor and the Sindar map is located facing page 121 (moved to page 128 in later impressions).The book is in very good condition (blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine) with bumping to a couple of corners and light rubbing to edges, very scattered age spots to page edges. The book is in a very good unclipped dust jacket which is protected in an archival sleeve and has light creasing to spine edges and corners, sun fading to the colour of the text on the spine. Internally the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears or inscriptions. Overall, a nice clean copy.
The story of the creation of the world and of the First Age, this 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 three Silmarils were jewels created by F?anor, most gifted of the Elves. Within them was imprisoned the Light of the Two Trees of Valinor before the Trees themselves were destroyed by Morgoth, the first Dark Lord.
Thereafter, the unsullied Light of Valinor lived on only in the Silmarils, but they were seized by Morgoth and set in his crown, which was guarded in the impenetrable fortress of Angband in the north of Middle-earth.
The Silmarillion is the history of the rebellion of F?anor and his kindred against the gods, their exile from Valinor and return to Middle-earth, and their war, hopeless despite all their heroism, against the great Enemy.
365 pages including Index, Appendix and Maps
ISBN: 0048231398
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