Silmarillian

[weasel]

Anyone ever read this?
I'm about half way through it and **** me it's crap!
There are just so many people and places with random/unpronouncable names and the story is on such a huge scale it's almost impssible to follow.
It's supposed to get better as you get towards the end. :?
Anyone read it, is it worth sticking with?

 

[Fitzy]

Anyone ever read this?
I'm about half way through it and **** me it's crap!
There are just so many people and places with random/unpronouncable names and the story is on such a huge scale it's almost impssible to follow.
It's supposed to get better as you get towards the end. :?
Anyone read it, is it worth sticking with?

Started reading it but gave up as it was too much like hard work rather than entertainment. It's like reading a history textbook.

 

[jabbawokkie]

i read about 2 pages and ****ed it off .

 

[Ron]

What the **** is silmarillian

 

[weasel]

Tolkien, Lord of the rings.
It's more about the first age of middle earth, before the LOTR's.

 

[weasel]

About 20 chapters in now, the first 12 or so are basically impenetrable, but after that it gets better.
Still not even close to LOTR or The Hobbit.

 

[jabbawokkie]

hobbits better then lotrs

 

[weasel]

Yeah definately.
I read them in order and I thought they got weaker as they went on.
Not saying the last two weren't great books, just that the first ones were better. All great books, well worth a read.

 

[tiefighterboy]

Hobbits scare me

 

[jayjedi]

read the first 2 chapters and gave up. read hobbit and lotr and thought they were excellent. cant wait for the hobbit film

 

[weasel]

Finished it last night, the first 12 or so chapters are pretty incomprehensible, but the ones towards the end are better.
In ther version I bought, there are two sections; one on the rings of power and the other and the destruction of Numenor, they are easy enough to read although it can be a bit hard as there are so many names and places.

You hear Peter Jackson had a falling out with the film studio (Newline?) and they have decided that he isn't going to be allowed to direct the Hobbit.
I just hope they haven't shot themselves in the foot with that decision!

 

[jabbawokkie]

hobbits a great book .lotrs is but does start to drag on . Silmarillian is just murder page after page of just names

 

[weasel]

There is "Unfinished Tales" which isn't bad. It gives you a bit more background into parts of LOTR's. It's definately a hell of a lot easier to read than the Silmarillian! :lol: