<P> The Silmarillion ( pronounced : / sɪlmaˈrɪljɔn / ) is a collection of mythopoeic works by English writer J.R.R. Tolkien , edited and published posthumously by his son , Christopher Tolkien , in 1977 , with assistance from Guy Gavriel Kay . The Silmarillion , along with J.R.R. Tolkien 's other works , forms an extensive , though incomplete , narrative that describes the universe of Eä in which are found the lands of Valinor , Beleriand , Númenor , and Middle - earth within which The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings take place . </P>
<P> The Silmarillion ( pronounced : / sɪlmaˈrɪljɔn / ) is a collection of mythopoeic works by English writer J.R.R. Tolkien , edited and published posthumously by his son , Christopher Tolkien , in 1977 , with assistance from Guy Gavriel Kay . The Silmarillion , along with J.R.R. Tolkien 's other works , forms an extensive , though incomplete , narrative that describes the universe of Eä in which are found the lands of Valinor , Beleriand , Númenor , and Middle - earth within which The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings take place . </P>
are there books after lord of the rings
are there books after lord of the rings
The Silmarillion
The Silmarillion