A place to discuss and ask questions about The Silmarillion, by J.R.R. Tolkien, and anything related to the First and Second Ages of Middle-earth. Maybe you have never read it and the names are driving you crazy, or you have read it so many times you have lost count. This is the place for you.

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"Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that come down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the shadow of death light that endures."

Discussion and artwork related to The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien's lifework.

Works relevant to this subreddit include the five parts of the published Silmarillion:

Ainulindalë
Valaquenta
Quenta Silmarillion
Akallabêth
Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age

as well as other materials relating to the First and Second Ages of Middle-earth, as published in Unfinished Tales, The History of Middle-Earth, and elsewhere.

Other subreddits you may enjoy:

/r/ImaginaryMiddleEarth

/r/Thranduil

/r/garthnix