Please do read this note before you get started on this one. The Silmarillion is an incredibly complicated and multi-faced work of literature. It is not only a good book, and an adventure story, but a creation myth as well, so providing a complete coverage would be something like analyzing the Bible, Beowulf and Alfred Hitchcock all in one. So what I included into the summary were: 1) Christopher Tolkien's introduction to the first edition of the book in 1977; 2) my own summary, supplied with appendices such as songs and Tolkien Encyclopedia entries. If that does not daunt you, click on the picture to proceed...................