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Post by Legolas on Mar 29, 2004 8:58:01 GMT -5
yeah-i'm one of those geography people. true words, iluvatar!
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Uilos
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Post by Uilos on Apr 7, 2004 9:23:08 GMT -5
when i first started reading the sil i thoughti was eaay. when i was reading all about the creation andthe valar and the ainur i found it fasinating, but as it went on i found it got harder and harder and in the end i totaly lost track of what was happening. i got to "of beleriand and it realms"and i had to start again. i was only 13 when i read it however, but i did finnish and was very glad i did. i really liked feanor, i found him fasinating and the noldor and the sindar. also i liked the story about the sun and the moon, that was kool. the whole book i found really hard but worth while. i would recomend to any tolkien fan, but i would advise to read the hobbit and LOTR first.
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Post by Kitoky on Apr 9, 2004 0:55:36 GMT -5
Well in some ways if you've read Lord of the Rings then you should find the Silmarillion slightly easier to read, but sometimes that's not the case, it differs to from person to person.
In my honest opinion, I found it easier to read without Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion was one of the books of Tolkien that I read before I started on Lord of the Rings...
But then again, that's me.
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Post by Legolas on Apr 10, 2004 15:12:48 GMT -5
yeah-i thought it was wicked hard!
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Post by Elemmiire on Sept 4, 2004 7:48:39 GMT -5
I have read the Sil. I got half way through it and had to start over because I didn't understand it. I got through it completely on my next try. My favorite part is about Feanor.
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Post by Haerodiel on Nov 16, 2004 17:52:53 GMT -5
I'v read only part of it, but I found it very confuseing. I would be reading, that then it just brought in some1 it hadend b4, like this: (I don't remember the guy's name, just that it started with and O, so I'm going 2 call him Ocho (yes, the spanish 8)) "And then Ocho rode out..." and I'm like, "Who's Ocho?" (I know, lame name) I had 2 start over and read it again 'cause I didn't get it. Then I stopped again because I lent the book out to some1 who didn't have it. I'm going to start again 1ce I finnish LotR. I've actually never read it; my dad read it 2 us.
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Post by Manwë Súlimo on Dec 31, 2004 22:31:28 GMT -5
This is such a ridiculously easy book. I wish it would have been a muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch more difficult to follow book. Convoluted things I like.
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Post by Elanor on Sept 4, 2005 0:53:00 GMT -5
Well!Now I'm gonna start the Sil a second time and I know it'll be a much more enjoyable experience. I'm gonna have to disagree with you Manwë on the book being easy, but thank GOD people arent' all the same, that'd be a dull world right?
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Post by Elanor on May 11, 2007 16:18:37 GMT -5
yay,I pick up this thread a year and a half later,and it was actually me who posted on it last. I have read it for the second time and love it even more!!And what's better,now I have it downloaded on an audiobook,so I walk around all the time now listening very intently to my iPod.
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Post by Beren Erchamion on May 12, 2007 14:06:54 GMT -5
Ha, I read it every year. Get something new out of it each time
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