![]() The Balrog, who later does battle with Gandalf in The Fellowship of the Ring, also features. You’ll find out the origin myth of dwarves and come across Sauron, originally the servant of Morgoth, who is the chief baddie of The Silmarillion. At the centre of the story are elves, though other creatures do feature. The Silmarils are jewels filled with light, and like the rings, they lead to trouble. Or to put it another way, The Simarillion is only a book to read if you’ve really caught the Tolkien bug and want to know everything about his world. ![]() It’s filling in gaps in the ‘history’ (including the forging of the ring) but doesn’t have the narrative flow of the other books and is quite hard to read. ![]() Chronologically, it’s about the period before The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, but it’s better to read it afterwards. ![]() Tolkien began writing The Silmarillion well before his other works but it was only published in 1977 after his death.
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