The Silmarillion J. R. R. Tolkien Book
by J. R. R. Tolkien

This is a book primarily for those who like the works of J. R. R. Tolkien about The Middle-Earth: it offers a detailed context that precedes the other famous works, in a narrative similar to myths and short stories.

The publication is posthumous, made by his son C. R. Tolkien, in an effort to synthesize the numerous drafts and writings of his father, and thus we have a kind of Genesis (analogically speaking) of the other works...

If not for the adventures, the book has essential value as a reference and guide to the broad and general understanding of the universe created by Tolkien.