{"id":103980,"date":"2017-09-15T11:43:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T16:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=103980"},"modified":"2017-09-15T11:57:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T16:57:33","slug":"the-silmarillion-reaches-its-40-year-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2017\/09\/15\/103980-the-silmarillion-reaches-its-40-year-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Silmarillion reaches its 40-year Anniversary!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Silmarillion<\/em><\/strong> is J.R.R. Tolkien’s first and last book.\u00a0 \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Professor Tolkien’s notes first dated to 1917 as he began developing the characters, stories and ideas for what was to become a Middle-earth mythology while recovering in a WWI military hospital from trench fever.<\/p>\n

With the success of The Hobbit <\/em><\/strong>(published 40 years before The Silmarillion<\/em><\/strong>), Tolkien’s Sil was rejected by the publishers who requested more stories about hobbits.\u00a0 This resulted in 3 installments of The Lord of the Rings<\/em><\/strong> 17 years later between 1954 and 1955.\u00a0 But he never gave up on his expansive work on this inspired world.<\/p>\n

Sadly, J.R.R. Tolkien passed away in 1973 before completing The Silmarillion<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 But through the devotion and efforts of his son Christopher, Professor Tolkien’s work was finished and published on September 15, 1977.<\/p>\n

“The Silmarillion is the history of the War of the Exiled Elves against the Enemy, which all takes place in the North-west of the world (Middle-earth). Several tales of victory and tragedy are caught up in it; but it ends<\/em><\/p>\n

with catastrophe, and the passing of the Ancient World<\/em>”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2015 J.R.R. Tolkien<\/a> in Letter 131<\/a> to Milton Waldman<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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