Please support me!

[samwiselvr2008]

Originally posted by Blackboar
I've just read the Valaquenta. I'm going to make it through this!!

I know I'm going to love it!! (Once I understand it )
My brothers helping me as he loves LotR too

Yay! Another 'mooter like me!

[Rían]

Where are you now in the Sil, samwiselvr2008?

[samwiselvr2008]

I'm eather in the middle of chapt. 8 or the begining of 9, but my teacher decided to give us at least 15 min. to read every day because we all told her that we wanted to have it, so I'll have more time to read it from now on! Thanks for asking!

[Rían]

Oh, good for you! You're welcome Keep at it!

[Renille]

Yay! I should write a letter to everyone who is reading the Silm. for the first time. It should go like this.

Dear (enter your name here),

So you have decided to read the Silmarillion. You silly, silly person. Not only will you struggle over words, names, and places, but you will get hooked with a book that you will seriously want to start over the minute you've finished it. You are obviously very enamored with Tolkien's work, or you wouldn't have started in the first place. If this is true, then you will love the Silm. Graphic battles, betrayal, love, hate, war, peace...everything you need, along with backgrounds to all your very favorite LOtR characters. YAY! But it'll be hard. Don't say I didn't warn you. It took me WAY WAY WAY too many times starting over to get through the book. But I did get through it, and it was one of the best books I have ever read. So keep trying....and most importantly, have fun!

Good luck,
Ren

Okay...anyway, I had to do that. Seriously, great job, samwise. Keep reading! And when you read of Turin Turambar, soak up every single detail! It's my personal favorite chapter, but that's just silly little me! Have fun!

[Wayfarer]

Am I the only person who read the silmarillion the whole way through in one sitting, the first time I picked it up?

[crickhollow]

Originally posted by Wayfarer
Am I the only person who read the silmarillion the whole way through in one sitting, the first time I picked it up?

Probably. With the possible exception of Nolendil.

[Sister Golden Hair]

Originally posted by Wayfarer
Am I the only person who read the silmarillion the whole way through in one sitting, the first time I picked it up?

I read it all the way through the first time I picked it up. It was easier the second time I read it. The third time was a breeze.

[Starr Polish]

Ah, but I am always reading several books at a time, and for certain reasons the Sil keeps getting pushed down lower on my priority list. It's not that I don't love Tolkien, but I have other things I've been wanting to read longer, and I am now reading three books at a time. The Sil is a book I'd like to have the time to sit down and delve into without interruptions from other books (like I did with LOTR).

[Wayfarer]

I couldn't read two books at the same time if I tried. A 300-700 page novel is generally worth a few hours.

[samwiselvr2008]

I'm trying to get through, I think that I read another chapter or 2, not sher. I'm just sorda confused.

Dose anyone remember what Galadriel's sister name was?

And this one had been bugging me, I must have missed a very mane and imprtant detail, WHO ARE THE NOLDOR????????

Okay, so I sound stupid, but that has been bugging me to death. Also, the Valor were ones elves, right? Well, I shouldn't say ONES, they still are, just held in a higher respect, and more wise, ect.?

[Blackboar]

What I do when I read it is have a Tolkien encyclopedia next to me and look about every single word up!! Or I look in the back of the Silmarillion!

[azalea]

Originally posted by samwiselvr2008
I'm trying to get through, I think that I read another chapter or 2, not sher. I'm just sorda confused.

Dose anyone remember what Galadriel's sister name was?

And this one had been bugging me, I must have missed a very mane and imprtant detail, WHO ARE THE NOLDOR????????

Okay, so I sound stupid, but that has been bugging me to death. Also, the Valor were ones elves, right? Well, I shouldn't say ONES, they still are, just held in a higher respect, and more wise, ect.?

The Noldor are one of the peoples of the elves, specifically one of the Eldar, who made the journey to Aman (land of the Valar). The Valar are not and never were elves, they're the Ainur (the lesser "gods" under Eru) who came to Middle Earth to help build it and care for it. The elves came later. It does help to flip to the back; I do it about every page I read! Well, not that much, but I do have to look back there to remember who's who! What chapter are you on?

[samwiselvr2008]

I'll have to explore the back of the book then! Thanks for answering the questions, I'm a little up in the brain. It's one of those brain- washed days!

IT'S SNOWING!!!!!!!! REALLY HARD!

Okay, enoph with the snow, let's talk about The Sil. again!

Oh ya, and I am to lazy to go see what chapter I'm on, I'll check later!

[entss89]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by samwiselvr2008
[B]I'll have to explore the back of the book then! Thanks for answering the questions, I'm a little up in the brain.


SHES LIEING SHES NOT ONLY A LITTLE BIT CONFUSED!
HA HA

[Rían]

Originally posted by samwiselvr2008
Dose anyone remember what Galadriel's sister name was?

I don't know of any sisters that Galadriel had, but her brothers were Finrod (the one Sister Golden Hair likes so much ), Angrod, and Aegnor. The "North away" part of SGH's sig is said by Finrod to a human lady named Andreth. That quote is from a really beautiful story in Morgoth's Ring, which is book 10 of the History of Middle Earth (HoME) series. The story is called "Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth".

The family trees in the Sil will show Orodreth as another one of her brothers, but Christopher Tolkien, JRR's son, was the one who put out the Sil, and he made some changes for various reasons, and says in later works that Tolkien's final word on the subject was that Orodreth was Angrod's son, which would make him Galadriel's nephew. And that Gil-Galad was Orodreth's son, not Fingon's, as shown in the Sil. But you really don't need to worry about that at this point if you don't want to.

An interesting quote about Galadriel:

From Unfinished Tales, "History of Galadriel and Celeborn"
Galadriel was the greatest of the Noldor, except Fëanor maybe, though she was wiser than he, and her wisdom increased with the long years.

ps - don't think I knew all that off the top off my head! I still have to check things - I usually can't remember whose son Orodreth ended up as - my poor brain gets confused sometimes and Angrod and Aegnor are pretty similar sounding names!

[Wayfarer]

Perhaps you mean galadriel's daughter, Celebrian? She was Elrond's wife.

[samwiselvr2008]

Originally posted by RÃ*an
I don't know of any sisters that Galadriel had, but her brothers were Finrod (the one Sister Golden Hair likes so much ), Angrod, and Aegnor. The "North away" part of SGH's sig is said by Finrod to a human lady named Andreth. That quote is from a really beautiful story in Morgoth's Ring, which is book 10 of the History of Middle Earth (HoME) series. The story is called "Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth".

The family trees in the Sil will show Orodreth as another one of her brothers, but Christopher Tolkien, JRR's son, was the one who put out the Sil, and he made some changes for various reasons, and says in later works that Tolkien's final word on the subject was that Orodreth was Angrod's son, which would make him Galadriel's nephew. And that Gil-Galad was Orodreth's son, not Fingon's, as shown in the Sil. But you really don't need to worry about that at this point if you don't want to.

An interesting quote about Galadriel:

ps - don't think I knew all that off the top off my head! I still have to check things - I usually can't remember whose son Orodreth ended up as - my poor brain gets confused sometimes and Angrod and Aegnor are pretty similar sounding names!

Her brother was probally who I was thinking of. I am sooo brainwashed today, you should have seen me trying to study for a science and vocabullary test today! It will come to know surprise to you that I felled both tests/ quizes. I think that I was to cout up in a book that I was reading, not Sil., a diffrent one.

I can't stay on subject! Stupid brainwashed head!!!!!

[Legolaslvr!]

Keep going Samwiselvr2008 your almost... on the 5 chapter??

Keep going I'll support you

[Lady of Rohan]

keep on reading Samwiselvr2008! You can finish the book! I still have to start it though. I'm probably going to keep a pencel and paper with me while I'm reading because every one says that it is really conusing.