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magnificent in its best moments.”- The Washington Post The Silmarillion is the history of the rebellion of Fëanor and his kindred against the gods, their exile from Valinor and return to Middle-earth, and their war, hopeless despite all their heroism, against the great Enemy. The book follows events in the life of a concierge, Rene Michel, whose deliberately concealed intelligence is uncovered by an unstable but intellectually precocious girl named Paloma Josse. Thereafter, the unsullied Light of Valinor lived on only in the Silmarils, but they were seized by Morgoth and set in his crown, which was guarded in the impenetrable fortress of Angband in the north of Middle-earth. The Elegance of the Hedgehog (French: L'lgance du hrisson) is a novel by the French novelist and philosophy teacher Muriel Barbery. Within them was imprisoned the Light of the Two Trees of Valinor before the Trees themselves were destroyed by Morgoth, the first Dark Lord. The three Silmarils were jewels created by Fëanor, most gifted of the Elves. The story of the creation of the world and of the First Age, this 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. Readers of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings will find in The Silmarillion a cosmology to call their own, medieval romances, fierce fairy tales, and fiercer wars that ring with heraldic fury. For this reason, Renee goes to great lengths to hide the fact that she often spends her days reading Marx and Tolstoy.

In this novel, Renee Michel is a concierge who believes that every concierge is perceived as unintelligent by those for whom they work. This mythopoetic masterpiece is a must-read before you watch The Lord of the Rings on Amazon. The Elegance of the Hedgehog is a novel by writer Muriel Barbery. Tolkien's imaginative writing, a work whose origins stretch back to a time long before The Hobbit.

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