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01-02-2002, 02:07 AM | #1 |
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Should I read this???
Ok....I like TLOTR....is the Sil worth reading? How much of the text is JRRT's? Is it as good as the other JRRT books?
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01-02-2002, 09:41 AM | #2 |
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Almost everything is by J.R.R. Tolkien. His son, Christoper just put all those stories together and made them more readable.
It's definately worth of reading and shame on you, if you don't even try! It may seem boring in beginning, but as you get used to it's style, it's a great book! It tells stories, that make LotR and Middle Earth so much deeper, so more real place. It tells about creation of the world, birth of evil in form of Melkor/Morgoth, whose servant Sauron was. It tells about might of Firstborn in acient times. It tells, how even elves are capable to evil. It tells of coming of men. In short: Read it! |
01-02-2002, 10:53 AM | #3 |
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I have yet to finish it but I would still recomend reading it. Even the first few chapters about the creation of Eä are amazing!
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01-02-2002, 01:19 PM | #4 |
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I just finished it yesterday, and I'm on fire...READ IT! The text is brilliant, though a bit more difficult than LOTR. But the stories...wow. They drag you in, until you feel like you're really there. A tip: if you have the new movie soundtrack, listen to it while reading. It enhances everything (especially mental images of the stories) a hundredfold. Bottom line- you haven't lived until you have read the Silmarillion.
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01-02-2002, 05:38 PM | #5 |
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YES! You should read it.
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01-03-2002, 07:53 PM | #6 |
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Absolutely agree, adder, read it, read it, read it! It fully fleshes out the history of Arda and is an enchanting and engrossing read. I'm about to read it again.
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01-03-2002, 10:16 PM | #8 | |
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01-04-2002, 12:25 PM | #9 |
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Of COURSE you'll have a life, Emplynx...after you read Silmarillion! Hee hee hee! [Running away fast, dodging]
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"...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160. |
01-24-2002, 12:57 PM | #10 |
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I believe one has not experienced Tolkien until reading it, because its writing is far better then LOTR, if a little overwhelming at times.
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01-24-2002, 06:08 PM | #11 |
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Yes, read it! Not only does it make LOTR seem so much deeper (or, actually, you start to understand the depth of LOTR better) but it's a bunch of great stories just by themselfs.
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01-24-2002, 09:54 PM | #12 |
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YES! This is a great book. I read the Silmarillion only recently and it is fantastic! It has everything: creation, morals, romance and tragedy...
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02-01-2002, 04:39 PM | #13 |
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Most fantasy isn't nearly as sad...
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02-10-2002, 04:44 AM | #14 |
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Dont read it. Soooo boring!
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02-10-2002, 01:40 PM | #15 |
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Ummm, There is nothing boring abou it. It can be a little difficult at times, but never boring.
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02-16-2002, 10:21 PM | #16 | |
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Yikes!!
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02-16-2002, 10:40 PM | #17 |
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That's what I thought the first time I read it too.
You have to go through it several times to get a feel for it
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02-17-2002, 12:26 AM | #18 |
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this was the best book by tolkien i've read so far. makes me wish he were still alive to write more.
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02-17-2002, 02:13 PM | #19 |
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I read it befor a year and it is worth reading.
I don't think its boring but it isn't written as one story like the LOTR, it is a lot of shourt storys.
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02-17-2002, 07:42 PM | #20 | |
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Read It!!!!!! Definitely, readitreaditreaditreadit!!!!!
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But I gotta say, I can see where Legolas_BowKing is coming from this time. I loved the Silmarillion, but I had problems getting into the book. However, now I'm thanking all the Valar that I was persistent, because the stories do draw you in once you get used to the writing style, and they're wonderful!
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