01-18-2002, 12:48 AM | #1 |
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I Just Started Reading It!
I just got the Silmarillion from the school library today, and read through Ainulindalë adn the Valaquenta. I would have gotten farther but I had a lot of stuff to do to day (13 hour day, not including homework! Eep!)
Of coures, I have some questions, but I'll just post one right now. When they were describing the singing of the Ainur, did anyone else have vivid mental images? Instead of imaginging the singing, I instead saw flashes and lines of colors. HuH?
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01-18-2002, 12:54 AM | #2 |
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Yeah, that part sort of reminds me of Fantasia, except with better music.
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01-20-2002, 01:17 AM | #3 |
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Yeah me too
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01-30-2002, 03:00 AM | #4 |
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I just started it too, but I haven't gotten near as far as you, starr polish. I'm still on the preface...well, I do have a lot of work to do, plus reading TTT again
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01-30-2002, 09:39 AM | #5 |
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Actually, I breezed through the Elf-less parts.
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01-30-2002, 11:40 AM | #6 |
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Hey, I too have just started to read the Simarillion and love it. I'm actually right where you are, at the beginning of the Quenta Silmarillion. Now that you have brought it up, I'll start to read it again.....right now!!
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01-30-2002, 09:11 PM | #7 |
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I don't quite imagine flashes and lines of colours while reading the Ainulindalë (which is my favourite chapter, I suspect because I am frightfully boring and I say things like 'frightfully boring'). I get vague figures of the characters in my mind occasionally, when they are related in a way that is related to appearance (for example Eru raising from his 'throne' {if that is what it was} those three times, and his smile, his stern countenance and his sorrowful tears). Mostly though it's all darkness until the Ainur are given sight, and they behold the Vision of Ilúvatar. I'd like to see that (not see that, I guess) in the movie theatre if that part of the Silmarillion ever makes it to such a place. Everything dark with just the voices of the characters and the narrator until the Ainur are given sight and then BAM!, all at once the splendours of the Universe unfold. It'd be something new to do.
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01-30-2002, 10:10 PM | #8 |
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That's pretty much how I 'saw' it Inoldonil.
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02-03-2002, 04:06 PM | #9 |
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i haven't even started to read it yet... it's on my to do list!
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02-03-2002, 08:44 PM | #10 |
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I finished it on Jan. 1, 2002. On the way home from my aunt's new year's eve party in the middle seat of a 9-seater van with little siblings yelling in my ear...that was not necessary information, was it?
Instead of the "color lines/flashes" I seemed to "see" the Valar's facial expressions as they each sang their piece in the Ainulindalë. Of course, I have no idea what the Valar looked like, but I try. In my head,their songs do come out as colored threads, and weave themselves into a huge mass that is Middle Earth, though. That is one of the most beautiful chapters in the Silm.
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