Silmarils (company)

{{short description|French computer game developer (1987–2003)}}

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{{Infobox company

| logo = Silmarils_logo.png

| founded = {{start date and age|1987}}

| founders = {{ubl|Louis-Marie Rocques|André Rocques}}

| industry = Video game

| location_country = France

| defunct = {{end date|2003}}

| fate = Bankruptcy

}}

Silmarils was a French computer game software company founded in 1987 by Louis-Marie and André Rocques. It produced games for PC, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Macintosh, Atari ST and Atari Falcon.{{Citation |last=Anderson |first=Eric |title=About the Study |date=2012-02-07 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199777921.003.0003 |work=The Monogamy GapMen, Love, and the Reality of Cheating |pages=22–34 |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199777921.003.0003 |isbn=978-0-19-977792-1 |access-date=2022-11-13|url-access=subscription }}

The company is most closely associated with its Ishar series. Crystals of Arborea 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.{{cite web

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|title=The Complete History of Silmarils - The End}}

The company was named after J. R. R. Tolkien's Silmarils.