I’m somewhat dubious of my ability to review this work, but I’m going to do my best. _The Silmarillion_ is the work of Tolkien’s most often viewed with apprehension by readers and, I think, the one most unjustly maligned. It has the reputation of being the most difficult of his published works and I...
Read in Italian and found absolutely boring and obscure when I was 10 years old and just done with the Lord of the Rings (and already knowing by heart the first 20 minutes of the Ralph Bakshi's cartoon). Re-read in English on November 2011 after having found a wonderfully preserved first edition for...
Expansive, in scope and in reach. This book may not suit those looking for a nice story, one that is usually sought in fantasy, but for those who want to delve deep in the mysteries of Middle-Earth, and those to whom the history of events described in Lord of the Rings excite to no end. For those wh...
When I read these I could never complete the reading. I ended up skimming and just looked for dialog. Compared to the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit. This book felt more like world creation notes that were just thrown in a book and published for a buck.
This is one of those books that I'll forever be working my way through. Tolkien's history is so dense that I usually end up reading this book with a Tolkien encyclopedia and a Middle Earth atlas just so I can keep people and places straight. Yes. I do realize that I am a complete mega-dork.
This book would basically be the bible of Middle Earth. It's not an easy read if you aren't obsessed with the source material. But if you are, it's well worth your time.
I read this when it first came out and I was a know-it-all teenager. Blah blah blah elves, I thought. Interminable begats. What a snooze. Ahem.In retrospect, I was the snooze, asleep or so rapt with my own navel that I failed to recognize some of the most complete and powerful world-building since, ...
The Silmarillion reads like a foreign language history book. In the modern sense, it is plotless. There is no single narrative with a main character to fall in love with or a satisfying conclusion. This is the history of Middle Earth. You've been warned. Therefore this is easily argued as being for ...
The Silmarillion is my favorite of Tolkien's books. I guess the people who find it hard to read were not forced to read the King James Bible repeatedly as a child. The Silmarillion is like the Bible with Elves, and that makes everything better.
As I've just finished listening to the audiobook version of The Silmarillion, I thought to take this opportunity to review this volume of Tolkien's posthumously published works (which I first read 30 years ago). I'll be posting this review here and with the hardcopy version of the book.First off, sp...
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