"A triumphant close...a grand piece of work, grand in both conception and execution" - Daily Telegraph.
"Among the greatest works of imaginative fiction of the twentieth century." - Sunday Telegraph
"A story magnificently told, with every kind of colour and movement and greatness." - New Statesman
"The English-speaking world is divided into those who have read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings and those who are going to read them" - Sunday Times
"Masterpiece? Oh yes, I have no doubt about that" - Evening Standard
"At times rises to the greatness of true myth." - Financial Times on Silmarillion
"A creation myth of singular beauty... magnificent - Washington Post on Silmarillion