The Silmarillion (and the four other stories in the same book)

[Variol (Farseer) Elmwood]

Originally posted by dplax: If you don't like the two beginning stories (Ainulindäle and Valaquenta) then just jump to Quenta Silmarillion. It has much more action in it that the other stories.

Maybe that's the best thing to do. I just got tired of the whole "of something and Something" etc etc. I thought the entire book was only that.

Praize be to the Illuvitar!

[Sillara of the Tamari]

Originally posted by dplax: Browsing through the old threads I found quite a few interesting discussions about certain parts of the books. Some people compared Silmarillion to the Bible or the Old Testament and while I don't want to go into discussions about religion because of the ban, I don't totally agree with this. Maybe the Ainulindalë and the Valaquenta refer to the creation of the world, but the other parts of the book (Quenta Silmarillion, Akallabêth and Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age) are a story, not mythological stuff (IMO).

Tolkien actually started writing the Silmarillion to give England a mythology of her own. He was always disappointed that England did not have one, and he would NEVER have considered the Arthur stories as sufficiently English. (British, I should say.) He never got over the Norman Conquest.

I love the Silmarillion (my oldest daughter is named Charis Luthien Juliet, and my youngest Miranda Celebrindal Sillara). My favorite story is, easily, Beren and Luthien. I loved that story. It was the most deeply moving, to me, of the stories because of its focus on the mutual love of Beren and Luthien. That said, however, to me the most touching aspect of that story was the death of Finrod Felagund in Sauron's tower.

Sillara

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How do your kids like their names?

[Sillara of the Tamari]

At the ages of six and two (my four year old is Ariel Chinatsu Sophia; she got Japanese instead of Tolkien ) they seem to have no objections! [img]smile.gif[/img]

Sillara