"Majestic .readers of THE HOBBIT and THE LORD OF THE RINGS.will find THE SILMARILLION a cosmology to call their own.medieval romances, fierce fairy tales and fiercer wars that ring with heraldic fury.it overwhelms the reader."@lt;br@gt;TIME @lt;br@gt;Those interested in J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth should not be without this grand volume that tells the tragic tale of the struggle for control of the Silmarils, a struggle that would determine the history of the world long before the War of the Ring.