The baking of lembas was an art of the Valar passed down to the Elves during their time in Valinor. The Silmarillion tells of how Melian the Maia taught Galadriel how to bake lembas. Galadriel ...

And Amazon’s expensive foray into the realm of orcs, wizards, and elves introduced ... the first time The Silmarillion will include all of Tolkien’s original art. This new, illustrated version ...

The Silmarillion says that he argued, “Wherefore should Middle-earth remain for ever desolate and dark, whereas the Elves could make it as fair as Eressëa, nay even as Valinor?” and ...

This isn’t too different from the history of Middle-Earth as seen in The Silmarillion, where men and elves are constantly struggling against the outer darkness. Occasionally glorious kingdoms ...

Jackson’s elves are alien in ways that are difficult ... elven cultures for Tolkien to play with during the course of The Silmarillion, his history of the pre-Lord of the Rings Middle-earth.

The elves of Middle-earth were among the fairest ... Tolkien went to extreme lengths to construct a believable world. The Silmarillion is less a novel and more a history, chronicling the most ...

Let's celebrate with a few facts about Middle-earth's elves. 1. THE HOBBIT WAS AN AFTERTHOUGHT. Elves were roaming Middle-earth long before Bilbo Baggins was even a twinkle in Tolkien’s eye.

J.R.R. Tolkien’s creation myth for Arda, Ainulindalë, opens The Silmarillion ... and the coming of the Children of Ilúvatar, the Elves and Men. Ilúvatar showed them how not even Melkor ...