<Tr> <Th> Preceded by </Th> <Td> The Father Christmas Letters </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Followed by </Th> <Td> Unfinished Tales </Td> </Tr> <P> The Silmarillion (pronounced: / sɪlmaˈrɪljɔn /) is a collection of mythopoeic works by English writer J.R.R. Tolkien, edited and published posthumously by his son, Christopher Tolkien, in 1977, with assistance from Guy Gavriel Kay . The Silmarillion, along with J.R.R. Tolkien's other works, forms an extensive, though incomplete, narrative that describes the universe of Eä in which are found the lands of Valinor, Beleriand, Númenor, and Middle - earth within which The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings take place . </P> <P> After the success of The Hobbit, Tolkien's publisher requested a sequel . Tolkien sent them an early draft of The Silmarillion but, due to a misunderstanding, the publisher rejected the draft without fully reading it . The result was that Tolkien began work on "A Long Expected Party", the first chapter of what he described at the time as "a new story about Hobbits", which became The Lord of the Rings . </P>

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