One of these is better than the others… you know the one I mean 😁
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I loved the *idea* of the Silmarillion. I don’t think I even made it to 10% before I went into a brief coma.
It was never turned into a consistent storyline. He partially rewrote it several times, and never completed any one of them. Each section (Gondolin, Luthien, Turin, etc.) was still in draft mode when he died, and his son was left to try to make sense of it.
IMO that makes it even better. It’s not meant to be a single coherent narrative in-universe either. It’s a collection of texts on different subjects written by different authors at different times. Granted I don’t blame anyone who can’t sit through it for that very reason. Perhaps approaching each section as its own story would make it more palatable.
@crouton @NickEast_IndieWriter @bookstodon @books @worldbuilding @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop I have read the Silmarillion. Unfinished Tales. The entire History of Middle Earth (all 12 volumes).
What, nerd? Me?