[ SECRET POST #4890 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4890 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

I haven't gotten round to reading the Silmarillion, but since I've been struggling my way through the first two Lord of the Rings books I'm not sure if its something I want to read either (I like the story of LOTR, I'm just struggling with the way its written).

[(Anonymous)]

If you find the prose style of LotR difficult, you will find the Silmarillion UNREADABLE. It is really dense stuff as it tries to emulate early epic poetry. I've tried over the years and still have never finished it (though if you look at plot summaries the storylines themselves are interesting).

[(Anonymous)]

To my memory it doesn't really feel like writing to me, it feels like pre-writing. And silly me, I actually like novels as a structure. I remember chapters that are largely the same story as other chapters with different characters. Sometime I want to tackle the Luthien novel, which is arguably the best episode of the work and what Christopher probably should have done from the start.

[(Anonymous)]

Beren and Luthien is a look at various drafts of their story, so although it's one of the three Great Tales the book itself is a slight disappointment. Take a look at "CHildren of Hurin" though for an anctual novel.

What I want to read is a proper "Fall of Gondolin" novel with Earendil and Elwing tacked onto the end. I think there's a fairly complete reading of drafts that will almost provide that. So near and yet so far.

[(Anonymous)]

It might be worth trying "Children of Hurin". That's a novel patched together out of decades of Tolkien's drafts of various bits of that story. I think Christopher had to write a bridging chunk at one point, but most of it is Tolkien's own. It's still fairly dense and heavy, but it's an actualfax novel-length story of the First Age.

[tabaqui]

I managed to struggle through it once, and it was *not* enjoyable.

[philstar22]

I totally get why it doesn't work for a lot of people. It isn't complete, certainly. It feels like a glimpse into a world. A world that works for me. A world that feels big and lived in, where the characters feel real, where the history feels real. And yet there is also so much room for imagination and expansion, and that gets me too. The writing itself of the Silmarillion doesn't feel complete yet, but that doesn't matter for me. But I get why it does for others and why it doesn't work for them.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah I get that, but at the same time I find it sweet that he tried.