The Silmarillion is J.R.R. Tolkien’s posthumously published collection of Middle-earth creation myths.
Christopher Tolkien edited the work from his father’s manuscripts, and George Allen & Unwin published it in 1977, four years after J.R.R. Tolkien’s death. It presents the history of Arda from its creation through the First, Second, and early Third Ages.
The book includes the Ainulindalë creation account, the Valaquenta, the Quenta Silmarillion, the Akallabêth, and Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age. It is not a conventional novel: its styles range from mythic narrative to annalistic history. The title comes from the Silmarils, three jewels made by Fëanor, whose theft and recovery drive much of the First Age story.