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Title: The Silmarillion

Author: J. R. R. Tolkien

Narrator: Martin Shaw

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-29-15

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 84 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fantasy: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

The complete unabridged audiobook of J.R.R Tolkien's The Silmarillion.

The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkiens world. It is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back, and in whose events some of them such as Elrond and Galadriel took part. The tales of The Silmarillion are set in an age when Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in Middle-Earth, and the High Elves made war upon him for the recovery of the Silmarils, the jewels containing the pure light of Valinor.

Included in the book are several shorter works. 'The Ainulindale' is a myth of the Creation and in the Valaquenta the nature and powers of each of the gods is described. 'The Akallabeth' recounts the downfall of the great island kingdom of Númenor at the end of the Second Age and 'Of the Rings of Power' tells of the great events at the end of the Third Age, as narrated in The Lord of the Rings.

Critic Reviews:

"How, given little over half a century of work, did one man become the creative equivalent of a people?" (The Guardian)

"Demanding to be compared with English mythologies...at times rises to the greatness of true myth." (Financial Times)

"A creation of singular beauty...magnificent in its best moments." (Washington Post)

"A grim, tragic, brooding and beautiful book, shot through with heroism and hope... its power is almost that of mysticism." (Toronto Globe & Mail)

Members Reviews:

a long and ponderous tome

have read it before and liked it, but struggled to finish this time. The story contains so many characters and places that once you lose concentration you completely forget what you just heard.

also, there are some issues with the sound.

at some points i could hear the chapter name being read over and over

Great story and narrator, weird production.

Audio glitches, tonally inappropriate music, uneven pacing (to be expected), overall great story, Great narrator.

Pretty good

For some reason part of the audiobook is weird. in that it repeats the title of the chapter throughout the whole chapter. which is annoying. otherwise, great book!

awesome

fantastic listen, only issue is that in one of the (luckily) more boring chapters, the title replays about 20 times

Great book. Shameful production.

The stories were great, but that's to Tolkien's credit and not the creators of the audiobook. Numerous times throughout the audiobook I encountered glitches in the track where suddenly the narrator would be repeating the title of the chapter or other pieces of the story in the background, thus resulting in near gibberish as the doubled tracks made it impossible to hear what was being said. I went back a few times to check if it had simply been my phone that glitched out but found that each instance of this glitch occurred consistently at the same timestamp. In other words it's a production error. And considering how many times this occurred, the production company have no excuse not to be absolutely ashamed of their work. Had it happened once I would have shrugged it off as a simple mistake, but when it happens just about a dozen times it becomes negligence. I recommend Tolkien's The Silmarillion, but I can't say I recommend this particular edition of the audiobook.