The Silmarillion (Quenya: [silmaˈriliɔn]) is a collection of mythopoeic works by English writer J. R. R. Tolkien, edited and published posthumously by his son, Christopher Tolkien, in 1977, with assistance from Guy Gavriel Kay.[2] The Silmarillion, along with J. R. R. Tolkien's other works, forms an extensive, though incomplete, narrative that describes the universe of Eä in which are found the lands of Valinor, Beleriand, Númenor, and Middle-earth, within which The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings take place.
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teemed : swarming or filled by
usurps : rape or take something by force
inscrutable : mysterious
belie : fail to fulfill or justify
pestilence : fatal disease
frail : weak
estranged : no longer close or in relation
