The Silmarillion

著者 : J. R. R.Tolkien

• HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (1991年11月13日発売)

作品紹介・あらすじ

Designed to take fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings deeper into the myths and legends of Middle-earth The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien's world. It is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back, and in whose events some of them such as Elrond and Galadriel took part. The tales of The Silmarillion are set in an age when Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in Middle-Earth, and the High Elves made war upon him for the recovery of the Silmarils, the jewels containing the pure light of Valinor. Included in the book are several shorter works. The Ainulindale is a myth of the Creation and in the Valaquenta the nature and powers of each of the gods is described. The Akallabeth recounts the downfall of the great island kingdom of Numenor at the end of the Second Age and Of the Rings of Power tells of the great events at the end of the Third Age, as narrated in The Lord of the Rings.
This pivotal work features the revised, corrected text and includes, by way of an introduction, a fascinating letter written by Tolkien in 1951 in which he gives a full explanation of how he conceived the early Ages of Middle-earth.

感想・レビュー・書評

[葉月まゆみさんの感想 · 2008年2月3日]

シルマリルの物語の原書。表紙のマークはトールキンが描いたルシアンの紋章。

[さかざわさんの感想 · 2005年10月31日]

神話よりも神話らしい。イギリス神話、もうこれでいいじゃん（笑）。圧巻です。

[Lothnilielさんの感想 · 2004年10月4日]

これ程までに切ない物語を私は知らないです．．．
指輪物語の神話時代のエピソード集という捉え方に限らず、悲哀に満ちた騎士物語集としても秀逸です。