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And speaking of great reads, The Silmarillion is fantastic!
MIND MELD: Books We Love That Everyone Else Hates (and Vice Versa) 2010
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I feel The Silmarillion is more compelling as a kind of literary "artifact" than The Hobbit or Lord of the Rings.
MIND MELD: Books We Love That Everyone Else Hates (and Vice Versa) 2010
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I agree with the assertion that The Silmarillion is superior as a work of the imagination to Lord of the Rings, although I still think that is a decent book (possibly better if the Bombadil chapters were ripped out though).
MIND MELD: Books We Love That Everyone Else Hates (and Vice Versa) 2010
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The Silmarillion is one I couldn't finish either, despite trying twice.
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In other words, The Silmarillion is little more than a mythological scaffolding upon which to build a real mythology -- that of LotR.
Paladin Thows Down the Guantlet Richard Nokes 2005
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Because The Silmarillion is not even really a myth; it's the formula for a myth.
Paladin Thows Down the Guantlet Richard Nokes 2005
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What Tolkien has done in The Silmarillion is simply express a basic Proppian mythological structure with specific names and places, without bothering with such things as character development.
Paladin Thows Down the Guantlet Richard Nokes 2005
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The Silmarillion is a dense book chronicling the minutest minutae of Tolkien's Middle Earth.
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The Silmarillion is J.R. R. Tolkien’s posthumously-published chronicle of Middle Earth, in which Tolkien details the history, legends, and world that would play host to his groundbreaking fantasy trilogy, The Lord of the Rings.
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The Silmarillion is a very dark work, going far beyond the bittersweetness of Lord of the Rings.
Archive 2009-02-01 Adam Whitehead 2009
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