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Surprisingly hooked by this one already. There are aspects to and moments within the prose (and the occasional piece of dialogue) that seem off, but several important parts of the main concept and premise of the book and one of the main characters I find to be really interesting and cool.

I did NOT think I'd really nearly 10% of this book in one day. I guess I will finish this by year's end without too much issue

Book good.

First chapter of Quenta Silmarillion (Of the Beginning of Days) was a lot that went over my head. This second chapter (Of Aulë and Yavanna) not quite so much. I understood I feel like the core of what was going on, and could also appreciate the writing at the same time. Lots of what I feel will be thematic importance to the events here, and reminds me of a particular group of Gnostic belief as well.

Oh nooo, I forgot to update after reading the Valaquenta. Very good stuff!

A bit exposition-y and quasi-info-dumpy but all very interesting material to me. Look forward to continuing with the first chapter of the Quenta Silmarillion tomorrow

Wow, got a decent chunk today. I'll take it, after being a bit behind this weekend.

Just finished what is essentially Act 1; incredibly fucking good.

This morning I re-read the 20 or 21 top poems I noted the first time around to make a Top 10 list for a video.

Guys, Chapter 9 is SOOOOOO good.

First chapter of the re-read down.

Amazing how much less whiplash this is when you know it's coming versus the first time around hahaha

First chapter (Auninildale) down on this leisurely (slow) read;

Very good - quite striking too, with brilliant prose. Very cool how deeply integrated the Christian influence is in this creation of the world. There's some other stuff there, but there's a couple 1-to-1 parallels to Christianity that I think are very cool.

There are so many cool things about this to set it apart from other things I’ve experienced, including deciding to circumvent many familiar tropes with the “other beings” that is just fun.

Ayyyyyy, let’s gooooo

I think I’m well and truly on the verge of some cool.

I’m VERY interested to see how long the last book will be 🤔

Slowly but surely making my way through again haha. Had/have too many reads going on lol

Wow, some really good character moments and other great stuff happening here.