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After J.R.R.Tolkien's death in 1973, his son and literary executor, Christopher Tolkien, followed his father's wishes and gathered up his notes and literary papers of almost 60 years of storytelling to form the history of the First Age of Middle-earth. This became Tolkien's hitherto unfinished The Silmarillion. A series of compact and elegaic episodes tells the story of the creation of Arda, the coming of Elves and Men to Middle-earth, and their war with the Great Enemy to save the early world from destruction. The Silmarillion contains the historic background to the world of The Lord of the Rings, including the tale of Beren and Lúthien, and the history and downfall of Numenor, the original home of the Dunedain.
