As a part of Amazon’s ongoing ebook sale, J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion is discounted by 57%, the bottom it has been on Amazon in 2025 thus far. Get it whereas it is sizzling, as a result of this sale is ending Monday, April 28. This is the illustrated version, which incorporates hand-drawn shade illustrations by Tolkien himself, detailed maps of Middle-Earth, deeper lore and world-building, and early histories of key characters all through the epic saga. Christopher Tolkien took on ending and modifying the Silmarillion after his father’s passing, providing a deeper look into the storied writer’s imaginative and prescient for what Middle-Earth would grow to be.
The Silmarillion: Illustrated Edition Is on Sale Now
The Silmarillion: Illustrated by J.R.R. Tolkien
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The Silmarillion breaks down the early historical past of its fictional universe Eä and the lands contained inside, together with Valinor, Beleriand, Númenor, and, after all, Middle-Earth. Broken up into 5 distinct elements, readers can count on deep lore exposition, in depth historic accounts of the First Age, and summaries of the Third Age tales we all know and love, the Lord of the Rings.
The Lord of the Rings franchise is not any stranger to works in different mediums, like Monolith’s recreation Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor, Magic: The Gathering crossover playing cards, and Prime Video’s live-action collection Rings of Power. In IGN’s assessment of Rings of Power season 2, we stated “[season 2] does an amazing job portraying Sauron’s machinations and his affect on these he manipulates, however an excessive amount of time is spent on disconnected subplots delivering solely mediocre intrigue and skinny characters.”
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