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The Silmarillion

J.R.R. Tolkien,

Christopher Tolkien (Editor)

Start date: December 1, 2018

Finish date: December 31, 2018

Discussion: Science Fiction and Fantasy

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Mar 28, 2010 Manybooks rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: book-reviews, tolkien, folklore-myth-religion, fairy-tales-fantasy

I had tried to read J.R.R. Tolkien' The Silamarillion multiple times in the past (and always unsuccessfully) and had basically given up, but I finally did manage to realise that I was attempting to read it the wrong way; I was trying to read The Silmarillion like I have read and with pleasure reread LOTR, as a story, an epic story, of course, but still first and foremost as a story. Now while The Silmarillion is of course also partially a story, it is (at least for me) first and foremost a relig ...more

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Dec 04, 2022 Kavitha Sivakumar rated it really liked it

A very difficult read. However, I am glad that I read as it covered the story that I wanted to know to enjoy the rings of power tv series.

What a world building! The first half consists of lot of information that was overwhelming. The second half consists of the stories of hurin, beren and luthien, rings of power, numenor, melkor/Morgoth, Sauron, etc. in concise form.

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Feb 14, 2015 Amanda rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, 5-stars, rec-from-geeks, recs-geeky, classics

I loved this book. Endstop. It's insane and amazing how much I loved this book. I went into it with ten years of friends voices and the conglomerate internet voice tell me this book would be hard, dry and like crossing a desert more than reading a book. But I was in love before I finished chapter one. I do not know how I listened for ten years, or how not one person ever informed me it was a mythic text. But it was gorgeous and golden and I loved it.

I listened to it driving to and from my job, ...more

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