I'm legitimately insane now.

[icepixie]

So I finished The Silmarillion last night(!!!) feeling vaguely like I had just run a marathon. The version I got from the library may have only been 304 pages, but believe me, each one of them feels like much, much longer. And while it was one giant excercise in why "show, don't tell" is Really Good Advice, it was good to get the background to LOTR. (Because the trilogy wasn't long enough, yo. ;)) Although if they ever make a miniseries out of this, like some people have suggested would be good, they so need to cut out about half the characters, a good bunch of the events, and actually give the characters personalities. (Although they should totally keep in Turin Turambar, Middle-earth's resident serial killer, just for laughs. ;)) Yeah, I know, it's supposed to be a history or whatever. Still.

Never, ever thought I'd ever become this much of a Tolkien geek. Although I'm not heading for the highest level of geekdom, 'cause there's no way you're gonna get me to read the History of Middle-Earth deal. Uh-uh.

Comments

[edenadvance.livejournal.com]

lol, I read it after i read the hobbit and before I started on the trilogy. I liked reading it, altho, like with the hobbit and lotr, it's a bitch to read through till the end.

[icepixie]

It didn't really pick up until the veeeery end, with Earendil and Elwing and all that. That was pretty cool, and actually written in something resembling an engaging style, rather than the dry-fact-mixed-with-thinly-veiled-Christian-fervor that the rest of it was in. The Alkallabeth bit (about the Numenorians) was also good, and the wrap-up on LOTR was a nice relief after the rest of it.