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Have a look here.
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Then Huor spoke and said: "Yet if it stands but a little while, then out of your house shall come the hope of Elves and Men. This I say to you, lord, with the eyes of death: though we part here for ever, and I shall not look on your white walls again, from you and me a new star shall arise. Farewell!" The Silmarillion, Nirnaeth Arnoediad, Page 230 |
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The Silmarillion is a book about the history/mythology of Middle-Earth and Valinor as told by the elves. The book goes over subjects like the beggining of the world, the Valar, the history of the Elves in Valinor and Beleriand. It also goes over men and Numenore but not as much as Unfinished Tales, so if your looking for Numenorean history UT is the way to go.
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UT also has a lot of stuff about the Huor and Hurin and Tour and Turin and stuff like that, its an all-around good book, and so is the sil
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I would say, rather, read Unfinished Tales and the Letters before embarking on the Sil77.
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Thread merged with the 'I need help' thread since they have the same topic.
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wait a minute? what are the Letters?
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so is it like all the letters that he wrote to people or something? whats so great about that?
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I haven't read it yet but I think it is Letters he wrote to people regarding Middle-Earth.
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Then Huor spoke and said: "Yet if it stands but a little while, then out of your house shall come the hope of Elves and Men. This I say to you, lord, with the eyes of death: though we part here for ever, and I shall not look on your white walls again, from you and me a new star shall arise. Farewell!" The Silmarillion, Nirnaeth Arnoediad, Page 230 |
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though I have not read them, I think the Letters answers alot of questions asked by people to Tolkien, and by Tolkien himself. I will definetly read them sometimes, beacus I think I can learn much from it.
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cool, i'll have to remeber to get that...
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I'm re-reading the Silm, and the Ainulindale gives me shivers,
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what is BoLT?
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Just for the record. Here is a list of books- Middle-earth related. If you can think of any others, post them.
The Hobbit The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring The Two Towers The Return of the King The Silmarillion Unfinished Tales The Letters of Tolkien The Histories of Middle-earth series 1. The Book of Lost Tales I 2. The Book of Lost Tales II 3. The Lays of Beleriand 4. The Shaping of Middle-earth The Quenta, The Ambarkanta, and The Annals 5. The Lost Road and Other Writings 6. The Return of the Shadow The history of the Lord of the Rings-Part I 7. The Treason of Isengard The history of the Lord of the Rings-Part II 8. The War of the Ring The history of the Lord of the Rings-Part III 9. Sauron Defeated The end of the Third Age, including the History of the Lord of the Rings-Part IV 10. Morgoth's Ring The Later Silmarillion-Part I 11. War of the Jewels The Later Silmarillion-Part II 12. The People of Middle-Earth
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I would add The Tolkien Reader,, The Monsters and the Critics: The Essays of J.R.R. Tolkien, and Tree and Leaf.
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![]() Thanks for telling me, but now I have it so you can stop telling me!
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