4.5 / 5
Year
1977
Publisher
George Allen & Unwin
ISBN
978-0395257302
Fiction
The Silmarillion
by J.R.R. Tolkien
Mythology written like a sacred changelog for an entire universe—beautiful, dense, and absolutely uninterested in hand‑holding.
Geek’s cut
Storytelling tuned for readers who over-analyze everything: layered themes, callbacks that reward obsessive memory, and a world that keeps expanding in your head after the last page.
Deeper dive
This is the lore bible behind Middle‑earth, the part most people only glimpse via wikis and YouTube explainers. If you’re wired for it, though, it feels like direct access to the underlying source code of the legendarium.
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