{"description": "A number-one New York Times bestseller when it was originally published, The Silmarillion is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative writing, a work whose origins stretch back to a time long before The Hobbit.", "title": "The Silmarillion", "covers": [14627042, 14627519], "subject_places": ["Middle Earth", "Valinor", "N\u00famenor", "Fictional pre-historical world", "Middle Earth (Imaginary place)"], "first_publish_date": "June 1984", "key": "/works/OL27495W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL26320A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Fantasy fiction", "Short stories", "Middle Earth (Imaginary place)", "Elves", "Fiction", "British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)", "Fiction, fantasy, epic", "Middle earth (imaginary place), fiction", "English Fantasy fiction", "English literature", "Engelse fiksie", "fantasy", "Bilbo Baggins (Fictitious character)", "silmaril", "Fiction, fairy tales, folk tales, legends & mythology", "Fiction, fantasy, dragons & mythical creatures", "Fiction, fantasy, action & adventure", "English fiction"], "subject_people": ["Maglor", "Maedhros", "F\u00ebanor", "Eru", "Morgoth", "Fingolfin", "L\u00fathien", "E\u00e4rendil", "T\u00farin"], "subject_times": ["The First Age", "Fictional pre-history", "First Age"], "latest_revision": 50, "revision": 50, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-13T02:46:28.838662"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-05-12T09:02:46.487282"}}