Life in Middle-earth began with music, distinct harmonies woven together by one being. J.R.R. Tolkien’s creation myth for Arda, Ainulindalë, opens The Silmarillion. The book explores Middle-earth’s ...

Those beginning to explore author J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings books are sure to come across or hear about The Silmarillion—but what exactly is this book, and how does it fit with Frodo's ...

The creation of the world through the great Music of the Ainur, as described in the opening of The Silmarillion. This episode explores the origins of Eä, the Ainur, and the coming of Eru Ilúvatar ...

For the first time since the original publication in 1977, J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion got an edition that’s illustrated in color. What’s more, the paintings and drawings that complement the ...

Happy Tolkien Reading Day! On this day, we’re celebrating the Eldandili Fantasy Choir. Jennie Tiderman-Österberg Enbacka village, Gustafs, Sweden, April 22, 2023 “Suilad, Eldandili Fantasy Choir. Mae ...

In the last dread days of disco-dûr, in the midst of the Seventh Age — known in perhaps a more familiar tongue as “the Nineteen Seventsies” — there emerged from the House of Houghton Mifflin, and ...