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Suzerain of Sheol Suzerain of Sheol is offline
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Well, in that case, I hope you liked the lofty style LotR was written in, because the Silmarillion takes it to a whole 'nother level. :p

There was Eru, the One, who in Arda was called Iluvatar, and with him were the Ainur, the Powers, who were the offspring of his thought. And Eru propounded unto them a great theme that filled the Deeps of Time and resonated in the firmament....

etc. Quoting from memory, but the first paragraph is something along those lines. And it keeps going like that. :p

In all seriousness, the Silmarillion is a fascinating text. It's on one hand like the Bible of Middle-Earth, it explains the Creation and the cosmology of Tolkien's world, then moves onto the First Age and the stories of the first fathers of elves and men, then travels all up through the ages until it ends right before the start of LotR.

Then there's the 12 book History of Middle Earth series, which is about how Tolkien created his world, how it evolved through different drafts and ideas over the course of his life... I've only read the first one, and those are *tough* to get through. Some neat stuff, but a lot of it pretty boring. I don't recommend those to anyone but the most hardcore Tolkien fanatic (which is someone more into it than me, by far...)
Cold silence has a tendency
to atrophy any sense of compassion
between supposed lovers.
Between supposed brothers.
Old Posted 12-08-2011, 12:52 AM Reply With Quote