Thoughts regarding the huge holes in the story that are missed by not reading this book and or the hobbit?
Like Sauron was undead as was evrything he created for he created lycanthropy and the worgs. Plus not knowing about the stones and why they were fought for and why Numenur spelling were out casted.
It is funny when I hear people talk about this and not really know what they ar etalking about. What do you think about trying to explain a story that you fully do not understand?
2006-08-15 06:02:49 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Oh who cares?!?!?!? IT'S FICTION! IT ISN'T REALITY! Also, tales like Silarmarillion were written AFTER LOTR and The Hobbit, to close up his own gaps and make the whole Middle Earth realm more "historic".
2006-08-15 06:08:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sauron's boss was MORGOTH, the renegade Vala. The balrog in Moria was also one of Morgie's old servants...he used to have a whole army of them. When his sronghold was destroyed, it took out half the north part of Middle Earth with it, including Ossirand of the Seven rivers, where the Entwives lived... Treebeard must have been in denial when he said they were "lost."
Yep, Sauron made a big goof causing the destruction of Numenor while he was present on the island, but since he was a Maia, his spirit survived, though he was never able again to appear in a form fair to men, as the story goes.
I could go on, but you are right in saying that the Silmarillion is a "must read" for anyone trying to explain LOTR.
2006-08-15 14:59:50 · answer #2 · answered by Spel Chekker 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love reading. I will give any book a chance. I loved the LOTR series, including The Hobbit. BUT there is no way I will ever again try to read The Silmarillion. It was completely boring and I could barely get off the first page. It's like the first part of the Bible with all the "begats". BORING!!!! I can understand the LOTR series fine without reading that piece of garbage. I picked it up about 12 times and couldn't get past page 6, so I put it out of my house.
There's what I think of the Silmarillion!
2006-08-15 13:12:53 · answer #3 · answered by Jessie P 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually I did read silarmarillion, and found it to be wonderful backstory, but not all that important to the context of the other works, because most of the main characters didn't know either.
It's a lot like people discussing the current events of the middle east, without knowing the last 50, 500, or 5000 years of history that has built it up to here.
There is always more to know, but that shouldn't dissuade anyone from trying to make sense of the information at hand.
2006-08-15 13:19:32 · answer #4 · answered by Beardog 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My brother and I have huge arguments and discussions about the Lord of the Rings because we've read all 12 of the histories and the Simarillion...in the privacy of our home. People think we're geeks and get really annoyed when we try to correct them. I actually really don't mind, and everyone else actually could care less so oh well. Not everyone can appreciate the wonders of Middlearth past present future except for those few Tolkien loyalists. =)
2006-08-16 04:43:45 · answer #5 · answered by greenlady16 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THE SILARMARILLION WAS THE BEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN!!!!
First, It was Morgoth.
Second, all of you people who can't appreciate a book in where a world is created by music can take arrow to the face for all I care! This was the best book I have ever read, I got my first writing inspiration from reading this book.
It does get annoying when someone thinks that they know everything about Tolkien work and they don't.
-Real conversation-
Marty: I can answer anything you can throw at me.
Me: OK, how was middle-earth created?
Marty: Uh... The One Ring?
Me:Idiot.
2006-08-22 17:39:54 · answer #6 · answered by plunoir 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've read pert of the Silmarillion. I read it after I read the trilogy, and I understood the trilogy without it. Of course I understood the trilogy on a much deeper level after I read the Silmarillion. But there is one thing the sil. didn't say: where did the hobbits come from???? The elves and men were children of iluvatar, the ents and dwarves were created by the valar, but where in middle earth did the hobbits come from???!!!!
2006-08-17 17:50:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ok, cosaxteacher--one thing you need to remember before saying it's just fiction is that tolkien wrote these as a fictional history of sorts (as you mentioned). which is why it's helpful to read the other books if you are interested in middle earth, etc.
and the silmarillion was not written after lotr. tolkien tried to publish sim. before lotr, but his publisher didn't want it. and it took him a LONG time to find someone who was willing to publish it, thus lotr was PUBLISHED before sim. plus, the simarillion was a lifetime work--in fact, it was his baby. he only wrote lotr because his publisher, whose name i can't recall wanted more on the hobbits. they expected lotr to be a children's book (and almost didn't get it published because it isn't as... "whimsical" as the hobbit).
anway, lotr wasn't written before--more like kind of in the middle.
2006-08-22 21:18:55 · answer #8 · answered by Angie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I read it like in 1984 or 1985. But, alas, I cannot remember who was Sauron's boss.
2006-08-23 07:34:25 · answer #9 · answered by Perry N 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-08-15 13:09:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋