This book is great...

[Lady Ashley]

I love The Sil!! :)

This a most excellent book!!!! I was enchated, yes, literally enchanted by it when I first read it...Because for one thing, I can see Bible influences in it...Eru and Melkor. I was quite delighted.

But it's overall just beautiful. I love history and fantasy...where better to combine them than LOTR? :grin: :thumbs: But The Sil...it's wonderful. It may be long and has so many silmiliar-sounding names, but Tolkien did a great job.

My fave parts are at the beginning with the creation of Arda, talking about Eru and the Valar. Oh, and about the Silmarils! I love them! Imagine the fate of Middle-Earth being changed for ever by little things like jewels or rings...

[Sindarin]

I couldn't agree more with you. :thumbs:

The Silmarillion is indeed a very excellent book. :)

[Daughter of Finarfin]

I completely agree! The first time I read it I felt like I was reading some undiscovered history of our own great earth! I love the little things that you don't get the first time and then when you read it the second or the fourth or the tenth time you finally feel like you get it, but then you read it one more time and discover some other great little tidbit! I only wish that we could have seen it published as Tolkien really wanted it, but alas! we will never know what the final version would have been.

[Mirkgirl]

Never found it that fascinating myself.... A bit like a history book which has to cover a very long period in very few pages. But it's needed to understand the later (in Arda's chronology) books.

Silm is a great food for the imagination, to imagine that world, the real actions that took place there, but reading it... well it's not my type of pleasure (anyway I'm rereading right now for the 4th time)

[Lady Ashley]

I loooooove history. That's one thing that makes LOTR so appealing to me. I skimmed thru a copy of The Book of Lost Tales Part 1 and it was freaky...it was all about the diff versions of The Sil...it was strange.

[Sindarin]

Yet fascinating. :read:

[Finrod Felagund]

but don't read it if you are depressed... ALL the cool people die or suffer great loss
It does read like the Old Testament though, similar feel too...
Evil is never truly vanquished and good can never rest

[Algamesh]

I find that I enjoy the Silmarillion more each time I read it. I think it has to do with the fact that the characters begin to become familiar. I didn't actually finish it the first time around cause I was a bit lost in all the 'ancestry'.

Of course ... now I love it. I feel like a brother to Tuor and a cousin to Beren ;) ! They do begin to feel like old friends revisited. Of course ... I've read it maybe 15 times since my first unsuccessful attempt!

[Eru]

Yes I also believe Silmarilion is excellent.In addition it explains the end of LOTR.Without Silmarilion you can,t understand it!

[Eru]

Has anybody play Magic The Gathering?

[Rumel]

I only started reading The Silmarillion after LoTR, which i later found rather deminished compared to The Silmarillion.
Did you know that Arda is also arabic for the earth, there are a couple of arabic influences there which i cant remember now, wether deliberate or not.

I have to say i agree with most of you guys, i find myself trying to look for places that look like beleriand. That may sound crazy, but that just goes to show the mastery of tolkien, if he can make fantasy seem so real.

The first place that i want to find is fingolfins grave, looking towards gondolin.