Silmarils was a French computer game software company founded in 1987 by Louis-Marie and André Rocques. It produced games for PC,

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and

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. The company is most closely associated with its '' Ishar'' series. ''

Crystals of Arborea ''Crystals of Arborea'' is a medieval fantasy role-playing video game developed and published by Silmarils, and released in 1990 for the Amiga, Atari ST and MS-DOS. The game is a precursor to the '' Ishar'' trilogy, a series also produced by Silm ...

'' was one of the first games to feature a real-time 3D environment and a large world with very few limits on movement. The company went bankrupt in 2003, and in 2004 the Rocques brothers and another former Silmarils member, Pascal Einsweiler, founded a new studio called Eversim, specializing in political strategy games. The company was named after

J. R. R. Tolkien John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (, 3 January 1892 – 2 September 1973) was an English writer and philologist. He was the author of the high fantasy works ''The Hobbit'' and ''The Lord of the Rings''. From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was the Rawlinson ...

Silmaril The Silmarils (Quenya in-universe , )J. R. R. Tolkien, Tolkien, J. R. R., "Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies — Part Two" (edited by Carl F. Hostetter and Patrick H. Wynne), in ''Vinyar Tengwar'', 46, July 2004, p. 11 are three ficti ...

Games

*1987 **'' Manhattan Dealers'' *1988 **'' Mad Show'' *1989 **'' Le Fetiche Maya'' **'' Targhan'' (planned for

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) **'' Windsurf Willy'' *1990 **''

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'' (planned for

) **''

'' **'' Star Blade'' (planned for

) *1991 **'' Boston Bomb Club'' **'' Metal Mutant'' **'' Storm Master'' **'' Xyphoes Fantasy'' *1992 **''

Bunny Bricks Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae (which also includes the hares), which is in the order Lagomorpha (which also includes pikas). They are familiar throughout the world as a small herbivore, a prey animal, a domesticated form ...

'' **'' Ishar I: Legend of the Fortress'' *1993 **'' Ishar II: Messengers of Doom'' **''

Transarctica ''Transarctica'' (or ''Arctic Baron'') is a 1993 video game made by the French company Silmarils for the Amiga and ported to IBM PC compatibles, Atari ST, Macintosh and Atari Falcon. Plot The story is based on the post-apocalyptic science ficti ...

'' *1994 **''

Robinson's Requiem ''Robinson's Requiem'' is a 1994 survival simulation video game developed and originally published by Silmarils exclusively in Europe for the Atari ST, Atari Falcon and Amiga. Taking place in the 22nd century where Earth and colonized planets ar ...

'' **'' Ishar 3: The Seven Gates of Infinity'' *1996 **''

Deus ''Deus'' (, ) is the Latin word for 'God (word), god' or 'deity'. Latin ''deus'' and ''dīvus'' ('divine') are in turn descended from Proto-Indo-European language, Proto-Indo-European *''deiwos'', 'celestial' or 'shining', from the same root ( ...

'' *1997 **'' Time Warriors'' *1998 **'' Asghan: The Dragon Slayer'' *2001 **''

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'' **'' Les Visiteurs: La Relique de Sainte Rolande'' *2003 **'' Inspector Gadget: Mad Robots Invasion'' *unknown **'' Asghan 2''

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