A Reader's Guide to The Silmarillion

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A Reader's Guide to The Silmarillion
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AuthorPaul H. Kocher
PublisherThames and Hudson (UK)
Houghton Mifflin (US)
Released1980
FormatHardcover
Pages286
ISBN0395289505

A Reader's Guide to The Silmarillion is reader's guide to J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion, written by Paul H. Kocher and published in 1980.

Contents[edit | edit source]

  • I - A Mythology for England
  • II - The Providence of Ilúvatar
  • III - The Valar and the Elves
  • IV - Fëanor
  • V - The First two Battles of Beleriand: Dagor-nuin-Giliath
  • VI - The Realms of the Noldor
  • VII - Of the Coming of Men
  • VIII - Beren and Lúthien
  • IX - The Battle of Unnumbered Tears: Nirnaeth Arnoediad
  • X - Túrin Turambar, Master of Doom
  • XI - The Ruin of Doriath
  • XII - Tuor and the Fall of Gondolin
  • XIII - Eärendil and the War of Wrath
  • XIV - Akallabêth: The Downfall of Númenor
  • XV - Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age
  • Chronology of the First Age
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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