The Silmarillion

expanded novel 1977 Middle-earth

Record

First published	1977
Original language	EN
Work type	novel
Canon status	expanded
First-edition ISBN	9780261102736

Where it sits

• Universe: Middle-earth
• Series: not part of a registered series (standalone work within its universe)
• Author: J.R.R. Tolkien

Awards (verified)

• Locus Award (Best Fantasy Novel), 1978: won

Notes

• Posthumous, edited by Christopher Tolkien. Excluded from ranking as a posthumously edited mythopoeic compilation, not a comparable narrative novel.

Neighbouring works

Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.

• Publication order, within Middle-earth (standalone work): position 8 of 28: previous Bilbo's Last Song (1974) · next Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth (1980)

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silmarillion
• sfadb, J. R. R. Tolkien

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