The Silmarillion (Silmarillion)

The Silmarillion is one of the most expansive worlds in the history of fantasy, a mythological canon that John Reuel Tolkien spent his entire life compiling. A book about the first Ages of Middle-earth, it tells not only the story of the great war between Light and Darkness that shook the once peaceful and prosperous land for millennia, but also the prehistory of the One Rings—Rings whose journey across Middle-earth is only just beginning...