The
Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien (Read by
Martin Shaw)
Brand New: unabridged.
13 CDs
The
Silmarillion is J.R.R. Tolkien's tragic,
operatic history of the First Age of Middle-Earth,
essential background material for serious readers of
the classic Lord of the Rings saga. Tolkien's work
sets the standard for fantasy, and this audio
version of the "Bible of Middle-Earth"
does The Silmarillion justice. Martin Shaw's
reading is grave and resonant, conveying all the
powerful events and emotions that shaped elven and
human history long before Bilbo, Frodo, Gandalf and
all the rest embarked on their quests. Beginning
with the Music of the Ainur, The Silmarillion tells a tale of the Elder Days, when Elves and Men
became estranged by the Dark Lord Morgoth's lust for
the Silmarils, pure and powerful magic jewels. Even
the love between a human warrior and the daughter of
the Elven king cannot defeat Morgoth, but the War of
Wrath finally brings down the Dark Lord. Peace
reigns until the evil Sauron recovers the Rings of
Power and sets the stage for the events told in the Lord of the Rings. This is epic fantasy at its
finest, thrillingly read and gloriously unabridged.
About the Author J R R Tolkien:
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (January 3, 1892 – September 2, 1973) is best known as the author of The Hobbit and its sequel The Lord of the Rings. He was a professor of Anglo-Saxon language at Oxford from 1925 to 1945, and of English language and literature, also at Oxford, from 1945 to 1959. He was a strongly committed Roman Catholic. Tolkien was a close friend of C. S. Lewis, with whom he shared membership in the literary discussion group the Inklings.
In addition to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien's published fiction includes The Silmarillion and other posthumously published books about what he called a legendarium, a fictional mythology of the remote past of Earth, called Arda, and Middle-earth (from middangeard, the lands inhabitable by Men) in particular. Most of these works were compiled from Tolkien's notes by his son Christopher Tolkien. The enduring popularity and influence of Tolkien's works have established him as the "father of the modern high fantasy genre". Tolkien's other published fiction includes adaptations of stories originally told to his children and not directly related to the
legendarium.
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