J.R.R. Tolkien - The Silmarillion

I'm baaaack! ;) Whoops...had to re-up this torrent. I fucked up the CUE sheets. Fixed. --------------------------------------------------------------------- J.R.R. Tolkien: The Silmarillian [Unabridged] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Author...............: J.R.R. Tolkien Title................: The Silmarillian Narrator.............: Martin Shaw Genre................: Audiobook Source...............: CD Year.................: 1998 Ripper...............: EAC Codec................: FhG Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III Quality..............: 64kbps Channels.............: Mono / 44100 hz Tags.................: ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3 Ripped by............: Nighted on 10/17/2008 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Tracklisting --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. (01:11:01) The Silmarillian [Volume I] - CD 01 2. (01:10:35) The Silmarillian [Volume I] - CD 02 3. (01:11:13) The Silmarillian [Volume I] - CD 03 4. (00:59:54) The Silmarillian [Volume I] - CD 04 5. (01:10:19) The Silmarillian [Volume II] - CD 05 6. (01:11:05) The Silmarillian [Volume II] - CD 06 7. (01:11:09) The Silmarillian [Volume II] - CD 07 8. (01:10:12) The Silmarillian [Volume II] - CD 08 9. (01:04:53) The Silmarillian [Volume III] - CD 09 10. (01:04:58) The Silmarillian [Volume III] - CD 10 11. (01:07:55) The Silmarillian [Volume III] - CD 11 12. (01:04:07) The Silmarillian [Volume III] - CD 12 13. (01:08:47) The Silmarillian [Volume III] - CD 13 Playing Time.........: 14:46:08 Total Size...........: 405.70 MB NFO generated on.....: 10/17/2008 2:16:53 AM --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Silmarillion tells of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien's World, when Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in Middle Earth, and the High Elves made war upon them for the recovery of the Silmarils, the jewels containing the pure light of Valinor. It is to this ancient drama that the characters in The Lord of the Rings so often look back. THE SILMARILLION Sit at the feet of the most beloved storyteller of the 20th century and hear how the world come to be. The Silmarillion is told here in a brilliantly faceted audio production, with all the glory of the First Age itself. Dazzlingly performed by Martin Shaw, it sparkles with the magic of the dawn of time�when Elves and Men roamed a world set spinning through space by the haunting music of supernatural choirs. Slip through the shadows and you, too, may catch the whisper of harp-song on the winds of the high air above the mists of the world. This complete and unabridged audio boxed set of Tolkien's elegant masterpiece is one that will delight fans young and old. It is an extraordinary classic keepsake to be treasured and listened to again and again. ---- Born in Birmingham, England, Martin Shaw studied drama at the prestigious London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and has since gone on to star in over a hundred roles on stage, television and in film. Most notably, Martin Shaw appeared in Roman Polanski's Macbeth and was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in 1996 for his performance in An Ideal Husband on Broadway. ---- INCLUDES AN EXCLUSIVE KEEPSAKE BROCHURE AND MAP OF BELERIAND AND THE LANDS TO THE NORTH* ---- J.R.R. Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on January 3, 1892 at Bloemfontien, capital of the Orange Free State in South Africa. His English father, Arthur Tolkien, was employed as manager of the local branch of the Bank of Africa. When he was three years old, Ronald (as he was known to his family) and his younger brother, Hilary, were brought back to England by their mother, Mabel Tolkien. Before they could return to South Africa, their father died of rheumatic fever. Mrs. Tolkien and the boys remained in England, living for a while in a cottage at Sarehole Mill, near Birmingham, then moving to suburban Moseley in 1890. The same year, Mabel Tolkien experienced a conversion to the Catholic faith; this event had a lasting effect on Ronald, and Catholicism became a motivating force in his life and writings. As a child, Ronald Tolkien spent considerable time inventing imaginary languages, a hobby which lead eventually to the creation of an imaginary world where such tongues might be spoken. He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and from 1911-1915 at Exeter College, Oxford, where he read English Language and Literature and acquired an extensive knowledge of Anglo-Saxon and Middle English. These subjects were to become important not only to his later academic writings and translations, but also to the shaping of his own fictional mythologies. In 1916, he married Edith Bratt, and went to serve in the Great War as a Second Lieutenant with the 11th Lancashire Fusiliers. Towards the end of the year he was sent home from the Somme suffering from trench fever, and during his convalescence began writing his Book of Lost Tales, a collection of stories about his imaginary world that was eventually to be known as The Silmarillion. After the war, he worked briefly on the Oxford English Dictionary. Then, having spent a year as Professor of English Language at Leeds University, he returned to Oxford in 1925 as Professor of Anglo-Saxon. The Tolkiens had three sons and a daughter, and it was to his children that Ronald first told the story of Mr. Bilbo Baggins, an unadventurous hobbit who finds himself having the most surprising adventures. Because the story was a favorite, he began to write it down around 1930. The publishing house of George Allen and Unwin heard about the story and encouraged Tolkien to complete the book. He did so, and it was published in 1937 as The Hobbit or There and Back Again. It was a huge success and the publishers requested a sequel. Tolkien had already offered them The Silmarillion (though it was far from completed), but they were looking for another book "about the hobbit." Then, in December 1937, Tolkien wrote to them: "I have written the first chapter of a new story about Hobbits�'A long expected party.' A merry Christmas." Thus began the long, erratic process of creating The Lord of the Rings. For the next twelve years, the work moved slowly towards completion; frequently put aside, once or twice almost abandoned. But encourage by his publishers, his family and his close friend C.S. Lewis, Tolkien worked away, writing, re-writing, extending and embellishing the story. As the work developed, it took surprising turns, threw up new and unprecedented conflicts and introduced the simple, vulnerable hobbits into a world of great heroes and mighty powers. It was the very world whose early history Tolkien had been recording in The Silmarillion. Few writers have undertaken the task of creating a new world with such thoroughness: Middle-earth�the world of The Lord of the Rings�has a geography, language, literature, history, mythology, flora and fauna that is unique and unparalleled. The Lord of the Rings was completed in 1949, but publication was further delayed while Tolkien tried to find a publisher who would agree to publish both The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. When this proved impossible, Tolkien allowed Allen and Unwin to publish The Lord of the Rings on its own. The book received a mixed critical reception: C.S. Lewis described it as being "like lightning from a clear sky." while American critic Edmund Wilson called it "long-winded balderdash," but they soon found an admiring readership. With the publication in America, in 1965, of an unauthorized paperback edition, the Tolkien cult began in earnest, proclaiming its admiration by every means from theses to graffiti. In 1971, Tolkien's wife died, and the following year he received the CBE and honorary Doctorate of letters from Oxford University. Tolkien died on September 2, 1973 at age 81. Perhaps the best insight into his personal philosophy is to be found in his short story Leaf by Niggle in which an artist spends his life engaged on a painting of a tree which he constantly reworks and retouches. When summoned to take a final journey, he leaves the picture incomplete, and with the passing years the work of a lifetime is neglected and destroyed�save for a small scrap of canvas bearing a single leaf. At the end of his journey, however, the artist comes to a land where his tree, now complete, forms part of a creation more perfect than the artist had ever envisaged. The Silmarillion, edited by Christopher Tolkien, was finally and posthumously published in 1977. --------------------------------------------------------------------- *Map courtesy of http://users.telenet.be/endorion/eng/Maps/maps_beleriand.htm This is the original map, drawn by Tolkien, included with the boxed set.

udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80
udp://open.demonii.com:1337
udp://tracker.coppersurfer.tk:6969
udp://exodus.desync.com:6969

bodog (2008-10-26)

Cheers for the upload. I am big into my audio books at the moment. I also put them on my friends players as he is having a bone marrow transplant. He is doing well and love the books I give to him :)
Thanks.

 Nighted (2008-10-27)

Wow....a comment.... D:
No problem bud, more on the way. I'll try to add at least 2 a week over the winter months. Wish your friend luck from me.

ad_astra_ink (2008-11-01)

Man, my da used to read me the Hobbit, LOTR, this and another. . i think, when i was a right young tyke.
This is gonna be good.

zadig1 (2008-11-04)

Thanks! I was just thinking the other day that I would like t listen to this and here is. Cheers!

theseatree (2008-11-14)

hi guys. i've downloaded this file but i don't know how on earth to burn it to a cd! can i use nero smart for this? do i unzip the cue sheets? :-o

killvenom (2008-12-19)

Thanks for the upload! I just hope I can download it :/

melkor_the_morgoth (2009-03-08)

Just FYI: The map of Beleriand included in this torrent - and I assume the one included in the original set, too - isn't the original map drawn by J.R.R. Tolkien. That map was far too marked up and messy for release. The map included is the map that was redrawn by Christopher Tolkien (the original artist of the LR map) for inclusion with "The Silmarillion," "Unfinished Tales," et al.

Freek73 (2009-07-05)

Thanks!

psphackerowned (2009-08-20)

is this and children of húrin part of the LOTR and hobbit story/universe

 Nighted (2010-02-23)

Over a year and still going strong. Thanks!
Gotta love the tenacity of fantasy and sci-fi fans. :)

AnoNunga (2010-03-05)

Thanks for the upload : )

alectinho (2010-10-12)

Thanku very much :D

mandarp (2010-10-23)

Will listening to this audio book be equivalent to reading the book?

elessarGObonzo (2010-12-04)

reReading again for the 5th-6th time, just hit "Of Beren and Luthien". decided maybe someone else should pronounce it for me this time, on to audio books. blame my father: my middle name Aragorn, born in summer of 1980. all his fault; carlos castenada & tolkien

NADCTiny (2011-05-01)

lookin forward to listening to this...been wanting to get the book for a long time but havent bothered cause im so busy with school and work...thanks for the torrent...

willthewonderdog (2012-01-19)

Thanks for the torrent...30 years since I read this the first time...

elektralicious (2012-03-06)

I never heard audio books before...but i downloading it now, and i think it's going to be great..Thank u

katelynor (2013-01-07)

Thanks!

sunshine-princess (2013-11-12)

thanks!
cant wait to learn more about middle earth.
like to play Lotro the online rpg game, and theres lots of references to stuff happening in the Silmarillion.

dididie (2013-12-31)

Man, this is awesome. I've become more and more fascinated with the films and listening to the audio books that I had to take a look on here. Sucks being unemployed or I would buy this. Times are tough and its nice to escape. Maybe that's why I'm becoming so infatuated with fantasy that my second novel is going to be the start of one i conjured up. Anyway, thanks again for this.

maawolfe36 (2014-03-11)

Thanks for the upload. Great download speed. I can't wait to listen to it. It's been a long time since I read the Silmarillion, and these days I don't have a lot of time to sit and read so the audiobook is perfect :)

tobiattt (2014-04-08)

cheers!!

frodo5555 (2014-09-28)

@ "bodog": "bone marrow transplant" sounds like leukemia, so you should not give your sick friend this fairy tales to read!
God says "My people is dieing because of they have no knowledge", and satan is working hard to keep people very misinformed!
You should give your friend (you included) a Bible (especially New testament!), since illnesses are satan's burden/joke for people that don't walk in God's way/are not (trying to be) like Jesus, so they get themselves exposed to demon influences which lead (amongst other things) to illnesses!
What you can do is; (in the meanwhile, while your friend is reading the Bible) accept the fact what did Jesus did is for your own sins, for you to be clean of them in front of God!
Than you can lay your hands on your friend (after you have read the New testament, so that you may know what are you doing) after he has accepted Jesus's deed for his salvation (it will not work if he doesn't accept that in his heart!), you can bound the demons that caused that illness in Jesus's name and order them to leave and then you order his body to regenerate it self, again in Jesus's name! Both of you repeat this in faith often (~every day) as long as it doesn't give results and your friend doesn't regain his health (if you keep clear from sins, it WILL work)!
Remember, you will learn what to do and not do (what is sin and what isn't) while reading the New testament. So, after you friend gets his health back from God, if he starts sinning again demons will legitimately have right to him again and he will get sick again (even more than the first time, since demon will bring others to destroy this newly saved man), but until he stays away (this goes for you too) from sin and he follows God's ways (Hi ways are here for our benefit) he will be under God's protection!
Here is an Audio Bible:

I know that this is posted very late, since "bodog's" post is from 2008. but this is the principle that may save anyone's life and ensure salvation and eternal life!
May God bless you all, in Jesus's name!