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... of Erreth-Akbe - Earthsea trilogy
The Dark Crystal
I'm reminded of the possibly apocryphal Amazon review
"The Silmarillion (and the Lord of the Rings, for that matter) is a collection of stories about fighting over jewelry and the resultant hand injuries" ... nd
The Omnipotent Child
Fiction:
Shame, hard to give up this lovely Rushdie, but honestly, I'll never reread it.
the Silmarillion Tried, but just.could.not.read.it. Made it to page 29.
Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion-- all duplicates or double-duplicates
N ... ... for Tortilla Flats next. I would like to read all of his works if possible.
ETA That was my third attempt to read Silmarillion--3rd times a charm! And i must admit it took persistence and lots of checking the notes and index to keep track of who everybody was--and sometime I still ... ... Flats as both also are set in the area and it is beautifully described.
Can't believe you finished and enjoyed Silmarillion. Tried that when I was young and gave up.
GO GIANTS!!!! ... Flats as both also are set in the area and it is beautifully described.
Can't believe you finished and enjoyed Silmarillion. Tried that when I was young and gave up.
GO GIANTS!!!! ... Flats as both also are set in the area and it is beautifully described.
Can't believe you finished and enjoyed Silmarillion. Tried that when I was young and gave up.
GO GIANTS!!!! ... that--with luck they may even provide a "character list" at the beginning. I just made one as I read.
The edition of Silmarillion I read had a good list of names and places in the back and a good index that I could use to refresh my memory as I went along. My other son who was reading it ... ... Freud got some of his ideas from Stevenson! It is short—more of a novella—but a great story.
39. Tolkien, J.R.R.: The Silmarillion (BC 366)
This was interesting because it gives the background myths that Tolkien spent years working on and from these ideas came the germination of the ... ... elves descended from a different family. I think most of the details are in the appendix or else I'm sure they are in the Silmarillion but it's a bit tricky to deconvolute it all. That there is such a detailed backstory is one of the things that makes LoTR unmatched by any other work.
#26 Sm ... ... shortly after that. I was aware of the Society when I made this purchase, having bought a copy of the limited edition of The Silmarillion from a dealer in the UK. A friend who teaches Spanish Literature recommended One Hundred Years of Solitude, so I bought the FS edition from B&N as a ... ... plenty of regular titles at good prices on eBay, I've also successfully bid on some limited editions. In this case, it was The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings. But I've also heard other members get burned on this. Obviously, as the item gets more expensive I get more ... ... of us in the US.
jveezer - I own the Harper Collins, Limited Editions of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. I bought the Hobbit from a dealer in the US. I bought the copy of 50th anniversary edition of LOTR from the amazon.uk.com site with no problems, so I'm ... ...
Bug Wars
Doomtime
Sos the Rope
Ender's Game
The Grey King
A Wizard Of Earthsea
The Lord Of The Rings
The Silmarillion
Desolation Road
Catcher In The Rye
The Wasp Factory
The Riders
The Shipping News
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime
The Bo ... ... I think this was another one that I got from school, and it's also been on my TBR bookshelf for a really long time.
4. The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien: This is my favorite book out of the Lord of the Rings series, hands down. I think I first got it when I was on a huge LotR kick and ... ... Feanor's sons, if he take or find a Silmaril and keep it. For the Silmarils we alone claim, until the world ends."
from The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien.
"...for she put forth her arts of enchantment, and caused her hair to grow to great length, and of it she wove a dark robe that ... ... days!
I became a member through almost the same exact process as BorisG, discovering a copy of the Limited Edition of The Silmarillion on a J R R Tolkien, bibliographic website. After locating and purchasing a copy of the same shortly thereafter, and appreciating its outstanding quality, I ... ... in Relativity, but as it is not for me but rather for a good friend who studies physics, and as I also don't have a Silmarillion to offer you back in return, I think I'll wait to see if there is no-one who needs it more seriously than I do.
I'll be of course very happy to pay for the ... The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien – 442 pgs.
I'm always so sad after I finish these books... The elves always leave at the end.
10,787 pgs. / 53.935 pgs. ... by Avi – 262 pgs.
(A good quick read—helped relax my head in between the appendices of Return of the King and The Silmarillion.)
10,345 pgs. / 51.725 200-page books Indeed it is The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien. The second line from the book is beautiful.
fyrefly your first line is very familiar to me but I can't place it... That's The Silmarillion!
Next line: "The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit."
... classified as fantasy. Romance, sure. Vampire-fic, yeah. Is that fantasy? Ahhh, who cares.*
I'd better add that i love The Silmarillion, so maybe i'm not the best judge of what people like.
P.S. the trilogy was The Axis of Time by John Birmingham, the books were Weapons of Choice, ... ... read it again in a moment" books:
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
Stormbringer by Michael Moorcock
The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Worm Ouroboros by E. R. Eddison
Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake ... watch them once or twice a year. I leave them to it. Same with Dune and Children of Dune.
Tried The Hobbit. Tried The Silmarillion. Tolkien just doesn't grab me. I have learned to live with the shame.
...
I agree with infjsarah on The darkest road it's the only time in my life I've cried because of a book. It's sooo sad.
The Silmarillion - when Fingolfin fights Morgoth, it's simply great.
Dragons of Winter Night - when Laurana in the High Clerist's Tower shoots an enemy messenger.
G ... ... things will improve. At the same time, after a certain point I may just give up and review it as best I can.
I bought The Silmarillion when it first came out. It took about five tries over about a year before I was able to get past the first few chapters. The same thing could happen with ... ... the last rites that began, “To Whom it may or may not concern….”
I would also add J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion to the list for its alternate take on the Christian creation story. Earth by David Brin explores the evolution of a planetary deity. To continue this trend, my first FS book was a second-hand copy of the limited edition of The Silmarillion, which I became aware of through a website that lists all Tolkien publications. After locating a copy for sale and receiving it, I then followed up on The Society and the rest of their ... The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay
The Silmarillion by Tolkien, definitely my favorite among favorites
Dragonlance Chronicles by Weis & Hickman
Princess of the flames by Ru Emerson, it was my first fantasy book love, so it feels nostalgic
Sandman by Neil Gaiman, may I post ... I think this is a personal choice. I've kept our family copy of the Martin Shaw Performance of The Silmarillion ( 13 compact discs ) separate from the book work. I leave the combined copies alone though, but only because this is an unabridged audio version, unlike the BBC dramatization of The Lor ... Shortly after The Silmarillion was published, one of Tolkien's sons addressed the problem with the book. Tolkien, himself, never meant for it to be published. It was created as a history of Middle Earth, complete with mythology, history, etc. as an aid for himself so the novels of Middle Earth ... Oh, yeah. I think I have a first edition of Silmarillion. I'm not sure if it's first ed or not, but it's in great condition. Comparatively speaking, The Silmarillion is the whole Christian bible, The Lord of the Rings is the New(ish) Testament, and The Hobbit is the Psalms through the Prophets. Really, if you consider the firstborn/chosen people of Ilúvatar, the Elves, and how their struggles bring about a new ... Another thing that bothers me is that series is not capturing the Silmarilion or any of the other such stuff. Shouldn't they be there as supplementary volumes of under a "Middle Earth" super-series? ... sets of lectures - a set of overviews of the genre and the detailed Tolkien ones. If nothing else it made want to give the Silmarillion
11) A History of God by Karen Armstrong (print)
This extensively researched book traces the development of how the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic ... I personally enjoy the OT more than the NT. But then again, I enjoyed The Silmarillion, so what do I know. The historical bits attract me the most, but remember that it's prone to many historical errors, especially works of pure fiction like the Book of Daniel which was written so late in history ... The Old Testament puts the New Testament in context, but it's sort of like reading the Silmarillion before reading LOTR. You may never get to the LOTR doing it that way.
I've never been able to read the entire thing straight through, although I read almost every day. Also, I always read a ... ...
10 Quidditch through the ages (are these worth the time?)
27 Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
30 Wuthering Heights
32 The Silmarillion I'm fascinated. I don't think I have yet catalogued a single one of the books on any of these lists (except Silmarillion), though I do have the HPs and Tolkien and have read some of the others. Apart from my cataloguing is chaotic (so that's news?!), what does it say? ... be. Certainly the formal speaking in LotR reminds me of Beowulf, and the overall tone of the trilogy (and the Silmarillion) reminds me of Norse sagas by way of Jane Smiley's The Greenlanders. So, yeah, it's drawing upon an extended folkloric tradition, but that ... ... the book that you have been staring at all these years is that there is always another one staring at you!!! Mine is The Silmarilion now . I finally finished The Catcher in the Rye What a waste of time!! ... enough that it's worth giving more than one chapter to try to get into it, and Ender's Game was just great.
I found The Silmarilion to be a lot easier to listen to than to read, if you can track down a copy of the audiobook. It's really dense, and hearing it read aloud helped me a) ... I have the Silmarilion and I haven't got the guts to read it. I LOVED the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings and I have heard so many negative opinions of the Silmarilion that I'm afraid to read it. ... So far.
Climb and Touching the Void I really enjoyed Into Thin Air so I thought this might be interesting too.
Silmarillion Does this one come anywhere close to Lord of the Rings?
Revenge of the Whale I liked Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower but I'm thinking I should ... ... but I think you need to fall in love with the fantasy realm before you want to know its mythology. If I had started with The Silmarillion, I'm not sure I would have been involved enough to finish it and move on to The Hobbit. Because I read the Hobbit and the Ring Trilogy I was inspired to ... ... in three volumes. But The Hobbit does not belong in the LOTR series. It should go in a middle-earth series, along with Silmarillion, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, The Road Goes Ever On, etc.
... I have never finished Pollyanna, Portnoy's Complaint, or Lolita. I have, however, finished War and Peace, The Silmarillion, and Ella Minnow Pea. I was once reading a horror/murder mystery where in the first chapter the killer put a kitten in a blender. I quit reading that ... ... book in your entire life... you're not missing much ;). But i do like that one.
># 10 mrgrooism: it would be ok to read The Silmarillion in chunks, like a history textbook, no need to treat it as a continuous story like a novel. Just make sure you read sequentially, so you don't miss ... The Silmarilion! I've started it twice and skimmed it, but never cover to cover. My ADHD just can't handle it! I know that Tolkien has already been comprehensively mentioned (duh!), but i have to correct one apparent omission: The Silmarillion.
Also Tanith Lee - i propose the Flat Earth series, particularly Night's Master I borrowed The Hobbit audio book from our local library but The Silmarillion is my own. I have The LoTR BBC dramatized version on CD but don't like it as well as the Inglis version. Someday I'm hoping to have all of them as audio books! 8^) ... The Hobbit, Rob Inglis is great! This is the beginning of my reading of 'Chronolgical Tolkien'. I have the audio book of The Silmarillion. The trilogy books I have marked so that they will be encountered in their proper order. Don't know if anyone else has visited the website where I found ... ... everything in LOTR happens in the Third Age, but there are two Ages before that and they weren't dull, I can tell you (see The Silmarillion). I am drawn to the feeling of cultural depth that Tolkien created in Middle-earth. So much of its history is tragic. And that makes the beautiful things ... ... characters is nice, but if it's not for you, then it isn't. I love the hobbit and LOTR, but it about killed me to read Silmarillion. Anyways, I think LOTR is worth reading through once. ... Este987! I hate my mind, or the lack thereof, sometimes. :)
Este is an Elven word, possibly a name, which I read in the Silmarillion, but of course, I've forgotten who or what now. :( ... I own the whole series but regard them in the main as reference material to be visited as needed/when needed. I have read The Silmarillion, The Book of Lost Tales vols. 1 & 2 (of the HoMe series) & Unfinished Tales (a stand alone volume of more of the JRRT materials) edited by Christopher ... ... The Children of Hurin and can say it's worth the read. It's an expanded, novelized version of "Of Turin Turambar" from The Silmarillion.
This may sound odd but one way to approach this is to read The Silmarillion up to "Of Turin", read "Children of Hurin" in its place, then continue "The ... This is a little off topic, but I've seen a book The War of the Jewels. Is this the sequel to The Simarilion? I'm wondering if I should read that one too. Brett -
You may never read The Children of Hurin if you read The Silmarillion first. The former is far more accessible than the latter.
This might not be entirely accurate, but it's my best shot. ;-)
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
Miracles by C.S. Lewis
The Confessions of St. Augustine
A Tale of ... Well, even if it can stand on it's own, I might pick up The Simarillion First. Thanks for the input, and thanks for giving me another book to read. ... of "history" tales to flesh out the setting of Middle Earth, but set thousands of years before LotR. I personally enjoyed The Silmarillion, for example, but I can also understand why some might not because of its history-professor voice. I haven't picked up Children of Hurin yet, but my ... A patron came in today asking for "the book with the boat on the cover, after the Lord of the Rings." We finally found the Silmarillion. :) I owned The Silmarillion for years, but never could read it, so I think I gave it away. I've read Daniel Martin several times, though, also The Thornbirds, The Honorable Schoolboy and (gag me now) Oliver's Story. Tried to read The Silmarillion after reading the {hobbit, Lord of the rings, Farmer Giles of Ham about four times, but could not get into it. ... fantasy third.
I've read The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein several times, and just acquired The Simarillion - second edition, with a lengthy letter from Tolkein to his editor. I've read the seven books in the Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis, and his Perela ... I've re-read JRR Tolkien times beyound count, particularly Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion. I'd have to guess twenty to thirty times for each. Same goes for particular works from The Rose that Grew from Concrete....I've read certain passages from E.A.R.L. the Autobiography of DMX ... The year I was born. :)
I've read The Silmarillion, and I've heard of The Thorn Birds but that's all for me for this year. --}4, 5 I've hear the same thing before about The Silmarillion. Haven't read it yet, though. I also agree with you fyrefly98 about The Historian. I just finished that one, and I am certain that I would not have completed the print version.
Bernard Cornwell's Arthurian books come to mind ... I enjoyed The Silmarillion in audio format much more than the print version; the poetry in the language really comes out when it's spoken. Actually, the entire Lord of the Rings series is worth listening to for no other reason than the narrator actually sings the songs.
Anything that ... ... than the general reader). My other gripe with it is the same one I have with most history books - not enough maps!
The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
As good as I expected. Parts of it were a little heavy, but generally I enjoyed reading it. I started re-reading The Hobbit and The ... #45 I share your love for the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and also couldn't get through Silmarillion - until I got the audio version. I really enjoyed listening to that, and have listened to it several times now.
I saw someone mentioned The Stolen Child but personally, I found that one a ... ... the Lord of the Rings "trilogy" and have read all three volumes at least 12 times since 1970, but even I can't deal with The Silmarillion! lol
ETA: How about the novels by Jim Butcher which I just discovered this year? For someone who likes mysteries, the Dresden Files starting with ... ... it would help nudge one's thinking in that direction without overwhelming them.
In the spirit of the UnSuggester, The Silmarillion should make sure they never even look at a book with the word 'elf' in it! ;-) ... is very appealing. Or maybe it's GGK's dissertation, which he had to get out of his system (after helping to finish The Silmarillion) before he could really start writing his own books. Even with all its flaws, I find a lot to like: Matt and the dwarves, Ivor, and the pacifistic giants. ... ... nice to know that The Lord of the rings and Secret garden are memoirs. Of course, The Stranger by Camus and Silmarillion are about music. The Da Vinci Code seems to be situated in New York, as well as Brothers Karamazov. Oh, and I’m happy to know that Les Misérables is a ... ... considerations, particularly when the works are already connected via the author and tags. Why not combine LotR with The Silmarillion? Or embed The Children of Hurin into The Silmarillion? They're all part of the same epic saga with a consistent fan base.
When it comes to to ... ... nice to know that The Lord of the rings and Secret garden are memoirs. Of course, The Stranger by Camus and Silmarillion are about music. The Da Vinci Code seems to be situated in New York, as well as Brothers Karamazov. Oh, and I’m happy to know that Les Misérables is ... ... he made his women a lot stronger. I've just chalked it up to his being fresh from working with Christopher Tolkien on The Silmarillion and that rubbed off on him ;-) ... at least very little SF output) and very atmospheric worldbuilding. Worldbuilding is no excuse for length (even Tolkien had The Silmarillion, he didn't cram all that stuff into The Lord of the Rings) . Also, his work (I mean Smith's) is quite epic in places. It's all about pacing, not length ... The Eternal Champion
The Everlasting Man
To Live Forever
Silmarillion
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
... a little while now, and whilst I'm still on a J R R Tolkien vibe at the moment, I think I'm going to launch into the Silmarillion soon, as I've never read it (shame on me)... but of course there's a certain Deathly Potter (I know the touchstone isn't right, but I got bored scrolling ... ... dams
Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K.Rowling
rereading both
Children of Hurin by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion By J.R.R. Tolkien
Just beginning my first ever reading of the HP series. Only a few years late!!
Used to read one book at a time...but never ... ... Another possibility is Guy Gavriel Kay's Fionavar Tapestry. It's the first thing he wrote after helping to complete The Silmarillion, and it's somewhat derivative, but he does a very nice job with some individual characters, and with bringing several themes and plot lines together. Plus ... ... in the middle of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and lovin' it. Still rereading Children of Hurin & listening to The Silmarillion. The Sil being the first step in reading the 'Chronological Tolkien' which ought to take me through the summer & into fall. Have made a stab at starting H ... ... to get through, I had trouble with the Hobbit (but I am planning to try it again), so that's why I wasn't so sure on the Silmarillion. Elantris, Anne Rice and CS Lewis are translated in Dutch, so I am going to read them in Dutch. The Dresden-files are not available in Dutch, but there is ... ... but I doubt I'd like them so much if I had only started now. I also really liked Lord of the Rings, but struggled with The Silmarillion. I'm intending to give it another try, but I found it hard going. Elantris was very good and enjoyable, and I think it's definitely worth a try for a ... #6 - If you enjoy history and mythology and would love to learn more about Middle-earth, The Silmarillion is for you.
Personally, I preferred it over LotR and The Hobbit... but I'm weird like that. :)
One suggestion if you do give Silm a try... approach it like a history book. Go in for one ... ... absolutely sobbing by the end. I really liked having the whole section dealing with Túrin as a child, which wasn't in the Silmarillion version at all. It helped me to get closer to the character of Túrin, whom I really didn't like in the Sil but felt much more sympathetic towards in CoH. ... in the entire book, however.)
-Some readers of Tolkien also pause over the vivid heroic friendships in his Silmarillion and Lord of the Rings; it depends on your understanding of love, however -- and there are violent arguments over just what Tolkien was getting at.
SF/F ... ... Trilogy is pretty epic and quite enjoyable. Its the first thing he published after assisting with the completion of The Silmarillion. It has some great heroes along with some swords and interesting sorcery. I personally prefer his later books, especially The Lions of Al-Rassan, ... ... After time, the major problem with inputting the books is, er, getting at them, because many are nicely barricaded. Translation: I need many more bookcases. And then there are the ones in storage.... :-)
Thanks! ... the Deluxe Edition and so had to wait for it. The wait wasn't too bad since I already knew the story so well from The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales. The Deluxe edition was a pleasure to read and hold after having the regular edition in my hands a couple of times.
Anyway, I ... ... partially because I was already familiar with the story. I found this to be much more readable than the version in The Silmarillion. I think that people who like the trilogy but can't get into the more hard-core writings of Tolkien's will like this book. ... losopher.
Here is something that he wrote that is, in fact, an argument but makes a rather ridiculous point: "To ask what the snippet of Butler's text means is to miss the point. This sentence beats readers into submission and instructs them that they are in the presence of a great and deep ... |
