@article{324417,
      recid = {324417},
      author = {Tolkien, J. R. R. and Tolkien, Christopher.},
      title = {The Silmarillion /},
      publisher = {Houghton Mifflin,},
      address = {Boston  :},
      pages = {xxiv, 365 p. :},
      year = {2001},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {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. Tolkien  considered The Silmarillion his most important work, and,  though it was published last and posthumously, this great  collection of tales and legends clearly sets the stage for  all his other writing. 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  Feanor, 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 Feanor 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. This second edition  features a letter written by J.R.R. Tolkien describing his  intentions for the book, which serves as a brilliant  exposition of his conception of the earlier Ages of  Middle-earth.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/324417},
}