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...SILMARILLION...
That is pretty much how things go in this vast Genesis of Middle-earth, the Elvish books of Exodus and Kings, the combined Paradise Lost, Prometheus revisited and revised Bulfinch's Mythology that is The Silmarillion. Tolkien brooded over it for a lifetime but never got it published...
Readers of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, teased for years by hints about the origins of Middle-earth will find in The Silmarillion a cosmology to call their own. Tolkien's familiar, deep-rooted sense of the unwinnable war between good and evil is also evident, along with a reverence for trees. Characteristically, dragons-those antique cruise missiles used by Morgoth-are plentiful, as are huge eagles, for rescuing heroes and depositing them safely on mountain tops...
...Silmarillion, Tolkien...
...Silmarillion, Tolkien...