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J.R.R. Tolkien - The Silmarillion
By: Kirnetro Date: June 6, 2014, 5:01 am
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J.R.R. Tolkien: The Silmarillian [Unabridged]
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Author...............: J.R.R. Tolkien
Title................: The Silmarillian
Narrator.............: Martin Shaw
Genre................: Audiobook
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 1998
Ripper...............: EAC
Codec................: FhG
Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality..............: 64kbps
Channels.............: Mono / 44100 hz
Tags.................: ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3
Ripped by............: Nighted on 10/17/2008
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Tracklisting
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1. (01:11:01) The Silmarillian [Volume I] - CD 01
2. (01:10:35) The Silmarillian [Volume I] - CD 02
3. (01:11:13) The Silmarillian [Volume I] - CD 03
4. (00:59:54) The Silmarillian [Volume I] - CD 04
5. (01:10:19) The Silmarillian [Volume II] - CD 05
6. (01:11:05) The Silmarillian [Volume II] - CD 06
7. (01:11:09) The Silmarillian [Volume II] - CD 07
8. (01:10:12) The Silmarillian [Volume II] - CD 08
9. (01:04:53) The Silmarillian [Volume III] - CD 09
10. (01:04:58) The Silmarillian [Volume III] - CD 10
11. (01:07:55) The Silmarillian [Volume III] - CD 11
12. (01:04:07) The Silmarillian [Volume III] - CD 12
13. (01:08:47) The Silmarillian [Volume III] - CD 13
Playing Time.........: 14:46:08
Total Size...........: 405.70 MB
NFO generated on.....: 10/17/2008 2:16:53 AM
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The Silmarillion tells of the Elder Days, of the First Age of
Tolkien's
World, when Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in Middle Earth,
and
the High Elves made war upon them for the recovery of the
Silmarils,
the jewels containing the pure light of Valinor. It is to this
ancient
drama that the characters in The Lord of the Rings so often look
back.
THE SILMARILLION
Sit at the feet of the most beloved storyteller of the 20th
century and
hear how the world come to be. The Silmarillion is told here in
a
brilliantly faceted audio production, with all the glory of the
First
Age itself. Dazzlingly performed by Martin Shaw, it sparkles
with the
magic of the dawn of timeùwhen Elves and Men roamed a world set
spinning through space by the haunting music of supernatural
choirs.
Slip through the shadows and you, too, may catch the whisper of
harp-song on the winds of the high air above the mists of the
world.
This complete and unabridged audio boxed set of Tolkien's
elegant
masterpiece is one that will delight fans young and old. It is
an
extraordinary classic keepsake to be treasured and listened to
again
and again.
----
Born in Birmingham, England, Martin Shaw studied drama at the
prestigious London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and has
since
gone on to star in over a hundred roles on stage, television and
in
film. Most notably, Martin Shaw appeared in Roman Polanski's
Macbeth
and was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in 1996 for
his
performance in An Ideal Husband on Broadway.
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INCLUDES AN EXCLUSIVE KEEPSAKE BROCHURE AND MAP OF BELERIAND
AND THE LANDS TO THE NORTH*
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J.R.R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892 at
Bloemfontien,
capital of the Orange Free State in South Africa. His English
father,
Arthur Tolkien, was employed as manager of the local branch of
the Bank
of Africa. When he was three years old, Ronald (as he was known
to his
family) and his younger brother, Hilary, were brought back to
England by
their mother, Mabel Tolkien. Before they could return to South
Africa,
their father died of rheumatic fever. Mrs. Tolkien and the boys
remained
in England, living for a while in a cottage at Sarehole Mill,
near
Birmingham, then moving to suburban Moseley in 1890. The same
year,
Mabel Tolkien experienced a conversion to the Catholic faith;
this event
had a lasting effect on Ronald, and Catholicism became a
motivating
force in his life and writings. As a child, Ronald Tolkien spent
considerable time inventing imaginary languages, a hobby which
lead
eventually to the creation of an imaginary world where such
tongues
might be spoken.
He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and from
1911-1915
at Exeter College, Oxford, where he read English Language and
Literature
and acquired an extensive knowledge of Anglo-Saxon and Middle
English.
These subjects were to become important not only to his later
academic
writings and translations, but also to the shaping of his own
fictional
mythologies.
In 1916, he married Edith Bratt, and went to serve in the Great
War as a
Second Lieutenant with the 11th Lancashire Fusiliers. Towards
the end of
the year he was sent home from the Somme suffering from trench
fever,
and during his convalescence began writing his Book of Lost
Tales, a
collection of stories about his imaginary world that was
eventually to
be known as The Silmarillion.
After the war, he worked briefly on the Oxford English
Dictionary. Then,
having spent a year as Professor of English Language at Leeds
University, he returned to Oxford in 1925 as Professor of
Anglo-Saxon.
The Tolkiens had three sons and a daughter, and it was to his
children
that Ronald first told the story of Mr. Bilbo Baggins, an
unadventurous
hobbit who finds himself having the most surprising adventures.
Because
the story was a favorite, he began to write it down around 1930.
The
publishing house of George Allen and Unwin heard about the story
and
encouraged Tolkien to complete the book. He did so, and it was
published
in 1937 as The Hobbit or There and Back Again. It was a huge
success and
the publishers requested a sequel. Tolkien had already offered
them The
Silmarillion (though it was far from completed), but they were
looking
for another book "about the hobbit." Then, in December 1937,
Tolkien
wrote to them: "I have written the first chapter of a new story
about
Hobbitsù'A long expected party.' A merry Christmas."
Thus began the long, erratic process of creating The Lord of the
Rings.
For the next twelve years, the work moved slowly towards
completion;
frequently put aside, once or twice almost abandoned. But
encourage by
his publishers, his family and his close friend C.S. Lewis,
Tolkien
worked away, writing, re-writing, extending and embellishing the
story.
As the work developed, it took surprising turns, threw up new
and
unprecedented conflicts and introduced the simple, vulnerable
hobbits
into a world of great heroes and mighty powers. It was the very
world
whose early history Tolkien had been recording in The
Silmarillion. Few
writers have undertaken the task of creating a new world with
such
thoroughness: Middle-earthùthe world of The Lord of the
Ringsùhas a
geography, language, literature, history, mythology, flora and
fauna
that is unique and unparalleled. The Lord of the Rings was
completed in
1949, but publication was further delayed while Tolkien tried to
find a
publisher who would agree to publish both The Lord of the Rings
and The
Silmarillion. When this proved impossible, Tolkien allowed Allen
and
Unwin to publish The Lord of the Rings on its own.
The book received a mixed critical reception: C.S. Lewis
described it as
being "like lightning from a clear sky." while American critic
Edmund
Wilson called it "long-winded balderdash," but they soon found
an
admiring readership. With the publication in America, in 1965,
of an
unauthorized paperback edition, the Tolkien cult began in
earnest,
proclaiming its admiration by every means from theses to
graffiti. In
1971, Tolkien's wife died, and the following year he received
the CBE
and honorary Doctorate of letters from Oxford University.
Tolkien died on September 2, 1973 at age 81.
Perhaps the best insight into his personal philosophy is to be
found in
his short story Leaf by Niggle in which an artist spends his
life
engaged on a painting of a tree which he constantly reworks and
retouches. When summoned to take a final journey, he leaves the
picture
incomplete, and with the passing years the work of a lifetime is
neglected and destroyedùsave for a small scrap of canvas bearing
a
single leaf. At the end of his journey, however, the artist
comes to a
land where his tree, now complete, forms part of a creation more
perfect
than the artist had ever envisaged.
The Silmarillion, edited by Christopher Tolkien, was finally and
posthumously published in 1977.
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This is the original map, drawn by Tolkien, included with the
boxed set.
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