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How To Build A Truly Convincing Fantasy World
1. It's all about the language. Make sure your world's language is convincing, and you're pretty much there. Conversely, if your language sucks then everything else will.
2. Your book can't include more than a few sentences in your invented language without losing your audience. But it can include plenty of names. So what people will really judge you on is the quality of the names.
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1. It's all about the language. Make sure your world's language is convincing, and you're pretty much there. Conversely, if your language sucks then everything else will.
2. Your book can't include more than a few sentences in your invented language without losing your audience. But it can include plenty of names. So what people will really judge you on is the quality of the names.
3. In fact, a world with only one language is implausible. You should ha ...more
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Keith
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Second Read: 5 Stars
I appreciated this book far more my second time around, although I can understand why my younger self was frustrated with it. The beginning is pretty slow unless you are fully invested in LOTR. Another major challenge with the book is the huge cast of characters which is further complicated by them often having similar names. The hundreds of locations are difficult to keep track of also. It is very helpful if you pick up a copy of the Atlas of Middle-Earth (also nice to have ...more
I appreciated this book far more my second time around, although I can understand why my younger self was frustrated with it. The beginning is pretty slow unless you are fully invested in LOTR. Another major challenge with the book is the huge cast of characters which is further complicated by them often having similar names. The hundreds of locations are difficult to keep track of also. It is very helpful if you pick up a copy of the Atlas of Middle-Earth (also nice to have ...more
For starters, this book is for fans of Tolkien who want to better understand the back-story of the events in the Hobbit and Lord of the Rings. It is not for a casual reader.
I hadn't read The Silmarillion in probably fifteen to twenty years, so in my working through The History of Middle Earth series (HoME) it only made sense to re-read it prior to tackling HoME related volumes.
The Silmarillion is a compilation of not quite completed works of JRR Tolkien written over the span of fifty years by hi ...more
I hadn't read The Silmarillion in probably fifteen to twenty years, so in my working through The History of Middle Earth series (HoME) it only made sense to re-read it prior to tackling HoME related volumes.
The Silmarillion is a compilation of not quite completed works of JRR Tolkien written over the span of fifty years by hi ...more
Some people rag on the Silmarillion for being hard to read. I don't get that, really. For me, it's a fascinating look at the world behind LotR. And a damn good book in its own right.
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(Reread) Elves don't die? Wrong. Elves are all that is grace and gentle in Middle Earth? Wrong. Elves are as flawed and scarred as Men, Dunedain, Dwarves, and even their fallen brothers Orcs.
Still a favorite: Turin Turambar Dagnir Glaurunga (Turin, Master of Doom, Slayer of Glaurung).
Fun fact: Feanor asks for a strand of Galadriel's hair. She refused. Thousand years later, Gimli asks her the same. She gives Gimli three. The maker of the Silmarils is a prick; that dwarf is an Elf Friend. Bless th ...more
Still a favorite: Turin Turambar Dagnir Glaurunga (Turin, Master of Doom, Slayer of Glaurung).
Fun fact: Feanor asks for a strand of Galadriel's hair. She refused. Thousand years later, Gimli asks her the same. She gives Gimli three. The maker of the Silmarils is a prick; that dwarf is an Elf Friend. Bless th ...more
As far as this die-hard Tolkien fan is concerned, The Silmarillion is the greatest book ever written. I've read the Bible at least 500 times. I think I've read the Silmarillion twice as many times. This is definitely the one book to rule them all.
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Tolkien's mythology is absolutely beautiful.
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