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The Silmarillion is the central body of J.R.R. Tolkien's narrative texts, a work he could not publish in his lifetime because it grew with him.
Tolkien began writing The Silmarillion long before The Hobbit, a work conceived as an independent story, but which was part of what he called a «copying and branching theme», and from which The Lord of the Rings emerged.

The Silmarillion tells the story of the First Age, the ancient drama that the characters of The Lord of the Rings speak of, and in whose events some of them took part, such as Elrond and Galadriel.

The three Silmarils were gems created by Fëanor, the most gifted of the Elves, and contained the Light of the Two Trees of Valinor before the Trees themselves were destroyed by Morgoth, the first Dark Lord. Since then, the immaculate Light of Valinor lived only in the Silmarils, but Morgoth seized them and set them in his crown, guarded in the impenetrable fortress of Angband in the north of Middle-earth.

The Silmarillion is the central body of J.R.R. Tolkien's narrative texts, a work he could not publish in his lifetime because it grew with him.
Tolkien began writing The Silmarillion long before The Hobbit, a work conceived as an independent story, but which was part of what he called a «copying and branching theme», and from which The Lord of the Rings emerged.

The Silmarillion tells the story of the First Age, the ancient drama that the characters of The Lord of the Rings speak of, and in whose events some of them took part, such as Elrond and Galadriel.

The three Silmarils were gems created by Fëanor, the most gifted of the Elves, and contained the Light of the Two Trees of Valinor before the Trees themselves were destroyed by Morgoth, the first Dark Lord. Since then, the immaculate Light of Valinor lived only in the Silmarils, but Morgoth seized them and set them in his crown, guarded in the impenetrable fortress of Angband in the north of Middle-earth.