The SilmarillionFollow

Anybody read it? Perhaps you have to have the geekyness that only i seem to be able to pull off so far (apart from trekkies) to enjoy it, but i did, anyone else? I read it twice now, even better when ya know whats gonna happen hehe.

i read it through twice but i must have read the bit where fingolfin gets pissed and rides out to angband to kill morgoth but he gets squished, i love that scene, best scene ever.

yeah that is kool, and when the valarquenta lock morgoth out side the world, that is great. Also, the bit where luthien and the talking dog thing (i forget the name) rescue beren, i love that scene, saurons werewolves and all.

I've read it twice, but much too long ago. I enjoyed it immensely

Thanks for the motivation to get me to read it again.

I splurged and bought the unabridged CDs. Very well done and beats the radio for the work commute. I highly recommend, if you can borrow or buy these.

I remember reading this book a while back and loving it. I was put off at first by it, but once you get into it it's great.

I saw a review of an LoTR fan who read the silmarillion and hated it, I can se where he was coming from, i don't hate it, but his description was great, I don't have a copy of what he said but it was along these lines: tolkiens work is like the bible, LoTR is the bits with the floods and teh rebellions and teh wars and the interesstiong stuff, the bit with the "abraham begat joseph, who begat moseph who begat brian who bagat his father before his first childs death, he had three sons, bertie susan and joseph wer their names, joseph had 3 sons and called them all joseph, they each married josephiene, and one of their offspring went to a large feild with lots of dears and otters and giraffes, this part is the silmarillion.

I can clearly understand why people would hate this book, this made me laugh out loud.

I realised a while ago and looked up the lyrics on the net, meant to post it here and i just remembered to, The Battle of Evermore by led zeppelin is about middle earth and that old chestnut, i think its about the last alliance battle, valley of ash and the like, i thoughroughly recommend downloading it or buying it (its on the same albumn as stairway/blackdog).

You must remember though, that their goal with the movies was to turn the books into a movie, and then make a killing off it. So in a sense they had to dumb some parts down to make the movies appealing to a larger audience.

Well,

I read it, by the way, just to nit pick, it is spelled, "Similarian"

Don't worry, you will be able to return the favour many times over in the future.

In my opinion, in many ways, it was the best of Tolkiens works.

Well DeathWish, sorry to nitpick, your nitpick of my Nitpcik :)

This was just the first source, want a couple hunderd more?

http://owl.infosys.utas.edu.au/reading_room/books/57.html



Edit to add this:

Ok, just checking for the obvious, I think I understand what is going on.

Without going to the book itself, I did the google thing and got those.

Now doing a different approach, I find where My thinking it was Similarian backed by some obviously wrong post's in a lot of places.

Here is the crossed linked book (crossed linked in my mind)

similarian,the icewind dale trilogy by ra. salvatore

So the short of it is I made a mistake, you are right I am wrong.

Edited, Sat Aug 14 22:10:37 2004 by JDurga

Edited, Sat Aug 14 22:11:07 2004 by JDurga

REad it many many times.

Each chapter should have been made into a novel.

If you get "Unfinished Tales" you can read an extended version of the Tale of the Children of Hurin. Also an extended version of the Tale of Beren and Luthien.


If you're pmore the poetic type, the "Lays of Beleriand" have poetic verse versions of The Luthien stories, as long as many others..... truly beautiful.

I cannot say enough about the brilliance of the Silmarillion, so I'll cut myself off now.

Many people are very much "into" the works of Tolkien. This should be obvious by the success of not only the books but the movies which appeared to have great cross over appeal to the mainstream.

I don't think anyone should have to apologize or fear being ridiculed for being "into" a book series. We don't look wierdly at the guy who can rattle off the life time stats of his favorite football player.

I myself have read the LoTR at least a dozen times, and the Silmarillion almost as many and some of the single stories more.

Speaking of Tolkien, I am one who will be buying the Special Extended version of the RoTK on the day it comes available.