Mass Market Paperback, 458 pages
Langue : English
Publié 6 mars 1979 par Ballantine Books.
The Silmarillion is a collection of J. R. R. Tolkien's mythopoeic works, edited and published posthumously by his son Christopher Tolkien in 1977, with assistance from Guy Gavriel Kay, who later became a noted fantasy writer. The Silmarillion, along with J. R. R. Tolkien's other works, forms an extensive, though incomplete, narrative that describes the universe of Eä in which are found the lands of Valinor, Beleriand, Númenor, and Middle-earth within which The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings take place.
After the success of The Hobbit, and prior to the publication of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien's publisher requested a sequel to The Hobbit, and Tolkien sent them an early draft of The Silmarillion. But through a misunderstanding, the publisher rejected the draft without fully reading it, with the result that Tolkien began work on "A Long Expected Party", the first chapter of what he described at …
The Silmarillion is a collection of J. R. R. Tolkien's mythopoeic works, edited and published posthumously by his son Christopher Tolkien in 1977, with assistance from Guy Gavriel Kay, who later became a noted fantasy writer. The Silmarillion, along with J. R. R. Tolkien's other works, forms an extensive, though incomplete, narrative that describes the universe of Eä in which are found the lands of Valinor, Beleriand, Númenor, and Middle-earth within which The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings take place.
After the success of The Hobbit, and prior to the publication of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien's publisher requested a sequel to The Hobbit, and Tolkien sent them an early draft of The Silmarillion. But through a misunderstanding, the publisher rejected the draft without fully reading it, with the result that Tolkien began work on "A Long Expected Party", the first chapter of what he described at the time as "a new story about Hobbits", which became The Lord of the Rings.
The Silmarillion comprises five parts. The first part, Ainulindalë, tells of the creation of Eä, the "world that is". Valaquenta, the second part, gives a description of the Valar and Maiar, the supernatural powers in Eä. The next section, Quenta Silmarillion, which forms the bulk of the collection, chronicles the history of the events before and during the First Age, including the wars over the Silmarils which gave the book its title. The fourth part, Akallabêth, relates the history of the Downfall of Númenor and its people, which takes place in the Second Age. The final part, Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age, is a brief account of the circumstances which led to and were presented in The Lord of the Rings.
The five parts were initially separate works, but it was the elder Tolkien's expressed wish that they be published together. Because J. R. R. Tolkien died before he finished revising the various legends, Christopher gathered material from his father's older writings to fill out the book. In a few cases, this meant that he had to devise completely new material in order to resolve gaps and inconsistencies in the narrative.
While this book features the finest world building in all of fiction and perhaps even all of English literature, its obsession with detail makes it a difficult read. It is not something I should have attempted reading at age 13 (did not finish at about 35%), but restarting it was one of the finest decisions I've ever made.
this is absolutely outstanding. Tolkien's bible of his world
En esta casa tuvimos otra nueva fiebre de ESDLA estos últimos veces. En mi cas me leí los apéndices del libro y me dije, ¿Por qué no me pongo con el Silmarillion a ver qué pasa?
Y ahí me puse, la creación, la Era de las Lámparas y el Despertar de los Elfos. La vida en Aman y los Árboles. Morgoth y sus maldades. El exilio a Beleriand y sus 5 guerras. Y la caída de Númenor. Será que no hay trasfondo en esta saga.
Hay muchas historias para elegir, con muchas mitología y diferentes narrativas. Algunas gustarán más y otras no. El mayor problema es que esto está contado como una gesta, como un Kojiki, un Beowulf, un Kalevala. Ríos de nombres en cada página y poca lírica en la historia, es casi un símil de una mitología como tenemos en otras civilizaciones, y de ahí que se haga …
En esta casa tuvimos otra nueva fiebre de ESDLA estos últimos veces. En mi cas me leí los apéndices del libro y me dije, ¿Por qué no me pongo con el Silmarillion a ver qué pasa?
Y ahí me puse, la creación, la Era de las Lámparas y el Despertar de los Elfos. La vida en Aman y los Árboles. Morgoth y sus maldades. El exilio a Beleriand y sus 5 guerras. Y la caída de Númenor. Será que no hay trasfondo en esta saga.
Hay muchas historias para elegir, con muchas mitología y diferentes narrativas. Algunas gustarán más y otras no. El mayor problema es que esto está contado como una gesta, como un Kojiki, un Beowulf, un Kalevala. Ríos de nombres en cada página y poca lírica en la historia, es casi un símil de una mitología como tenemos en otras civilizaciones, y de ahí que se haga realmente bola leerlo.
No voy a negar que me quedé sopa alguna vez leyéndolo por la noche.
Creo que se le puede dar una oportunidad, aunque ya dependerá de las ganas de cada uno. Es posible leerlo, y es disfrutable. Aunque los elfos puede que te caigan peor.
