Updated 30/09/2014
The Hobbit: The Battle of The Five Armies arrives in UK cinemas on December 12th! If you can’t wait that long Lily Wight ~ The Arcade of Arts & Arcana can satisfy your Middle-earth cravings with a variety of Tolkien related posts (just click the category in the sidebar).
Let’s get started with a flash review of a book that definitely deserves a trilogy of movies… are you listening Peter Jackson!
The Silmarillion
Genius is not a term to be attributed lightly but if any author deserves such an accolade it is John Ronald Reuel Tolkien.
Traditional Mythologies contain a vast body of evolving materials collected over time by countless storytellers and authors. So, for one man to invent arguably the finest and most emotive original Myth-Cycle – to the Western European heart and mind at least – is nothing short of miraculous.
The Silmarillion is beautifully paced, by turns both magnificently grand and then intimately moving. It is perhaps even more satisfying than the mighty Rings itself.
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🙂 Very glad to have found your blog x
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The last image is of the first edition. I researched this several years ago for my sons 13th birthday and located a copy from a bookstore in England. Was fun to track it down and locate all the binding and print identifiers.
We can’t wait for the Hobbit!
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Imax 3D tickets booked – very excited.
I love that original cover, whenever I think of the Silmarillion it’s always the image that springs to mind 🙂
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Ahh, the Silmarillion. I’ve never managed to get all the way through the Rings, but have read the Silmarillion twice. Probably his best Middle Earth work and probably the least acknowledged. Nice little review.
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Thank you xx I absolutely agree. Maybe I should start some kind of Silmarillion appreciation campaign 🙂
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For me it is just the other way around. I have started reading The Silmarillion six time, and never made it through. The Lord of the Rings on the other hand, I read at least ten times. If not more.
So you are saying I should give The Silmarillion another try?
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Absolutely 🙂 It sheds brand new light on Rings 🙂
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