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Pickpick

This is a lovely little book, covering Kilby's stay with the Tolkiens in the summer of 1965, invited by JRRT to give him "editorial and critical assistance", and an impetus to focus on his authorial task at a time when age and the distractions of a fame to which he was ambivalent combined with a natural dilatoriness and a tendency for his interests to be "Like butter that has been scraped over too much bread". His personal impressions of ?

Bookwomble ... Tolkien's character are fascinating.
He goes onto a sketch of the composition of the Silmarillion, something that Christopher Tolkien later greatly expanded upon, then a consideration of how Tolkien's Christianity is embedded in his work, not as deliberately as that of C.S. Lewis but as a natural effect of his deep belief, and rounds up with a consideration of the three major Inklings, JRRT, Lewis and Charles Williams.
Lovely! 😊
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Leoslittlebooklife What a lovely cover! 2w
Bookwomble @Leoslittlebooklife It's vibrantly coloured, isn't it, which is what struck my eye as I took it off the shop's bookshelf 😍 2w
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Next up, a memoir of Kilby's summer assisting JRRT with his Silmarillion materials, after which he was asked to read the manuscript prior to publication. Kilby's book was published 1976, the year before The Silmarillion, so his impressions will be personal & unaffected by its general & critical reception.
Kilby was an Inkling scholar, with several academic books about Tolkien, Lewis and the others, so I'm also expecting it to be well-considered.

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bookishbitch
Tolkien: Treasures | Catherine McIlwaine
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One of my current hyper fixations is J.R.R.Tolkien. I stumbled across this and knew I needed it. It has a bit of info about his life and his writing. However, it is mostly photos of his artwork. I only learned recently how much of an artist he was. This is a quick read, and I'm glad I found it.

Daisey I haven‘t seen this one you‘ve read, but I do love the book I have about his art! 3mo
bookishbitch @Daisey Oh, that one looks good too! 3mo
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Daisey
The Silmarillion | J.R.R. Tolkien
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I‘ve appreciated the world building of this book every time I‘ve read it, but after multiple rereads I can simply enjoy reading it as well. There are epic stories with amazing characters. Yet, it only shows a small part of the world Tolkien created, and now reading it makes me want to reread books with other versions as well. This time I switched throughout between print, ebook, & audio versions.

#FellowshipOfTolkien #Silmarillion #reread

Daisey How‘s everyone else doing on getting through the book? 12mo
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JazzFeathers That's very true. Every new reread is a new experience, and every time we read it, we become more familiar vit the story and can start to see beyond the complex plot. It's an amazing book. 12mo
BethM I failed at this one 🤦‍♀️are we reading more? 11mo
Daisey @BethM I am always up for reading more and still have a stack of Tolkien books I haven‘t read. I think for the most part people have finished or stopped reading I‘ll check in with @JazzFeathers and see about making another plan. 11mo
Daisey @BethM As of right now, we don‘t have a set plan. I always want to read more Tolkien, but I‘m busy in a way during the summer that makes it hard for me to say I could keep up on leading another read. Maybe I‘ll check in again with readers before we head back to school to see if there‘s interest in reading more this fall. Do you have thoughts on what you‘re interested in reading next? 10mo
wordslinger42 @Daisey Hey there! I‘m sorry I never responded to any of your tags. I got an iPhone, so I finally have the Litsy app again. Let me know when you all read Tolkien again! 8mo
Daisey @wordslinger42 We‘ve been doing a bit of considering and I think @jazzfeathers is planning to post a poll soon with some options to get reader input on another Tolkien read this fall. I‘m ready to get back to it! 8mo
wordslinger42 @Daisey That sounds great to me!! Keep me posted 😊 8mo
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Daisey
The Silmarillion | J.R.R. Tolkien
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Sharing a weird word of the week a day late. I‘ve read The Silmarillion several times but never stopped to figure out exactly what weregild meant until this week. In this case, Isildur kept the one ring as a weregild for his father & brother killed in battle.

weregild: monetary value set for a person and paid to their family or lord if slain; also man price or blood money (noun)

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#WeirdWords #WeirdWordWednesday

CBee Good one! ☺️ 12mo
CatLass007 I‘ve read the word weregild before, I think it was in one or more of the Harry Dresden books. I never looked up the exact definition, but was able to infer its meaning from the context in which it was used. Thanks for sharing! 12mo
Daisey @CatLass007 I had a reasonably good idea based on context, but the clarification of words I wouldn‘t normally look up is one of the things I love about looking for words to share each week. 12mo
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JazzFeathers
Silmarillion | J R R Tolkien
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Reading this today.
I've read this story many times, in multiple versions. It's always exceptionally beautiful and moving.

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JazzFeathers
Silmarillion | J R R Tolkien
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Let's face it. If this story was written in today's fantasy language, it would be extremely dark and desperate.

Instead, Tolkien chose to write it focusing on desires and even goals, twisted as they may be. And because of this choice, a story that might have been very dark, with an underline of will-power, it's in fact a story of strong wills and desires with an underline of darkness.

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JazzFeathers
Silmarillion | J R R Tolkien
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I love the story of the founding of Gondolin. I mean: Ulmo and his prophecy, the secret building, the way Turgon and his people disappear. It's so fairytale-like and yet it makes perfect sense in the narration.
I also love how the Vow starts to work its power. Yet Tolkien was always concerned with showing the Elves as fundamentally fair even when deeply troubled. Thingol's episode shows this perfectly.

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JazzFeathers
Silmarillion | J R R Tolkien
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Tolkien has a way to turn the environment into characters. The rivers and the forests, and the hills, the mountains, the plains and the lakes - all have the quality of characters in this narration.

I think this is why, even if at first glance this may seem like a descriptive chapter, there is still a sense of narration here.

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JazzFeathers
Silmarillion | J R R Tolkien
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I'm really quite behind 😟
But I'm trying to catch up and am not as far behind as my posts might suggest.

I'm enjoying this a lot. Truly, The Silmarillion Is Better evrybtime you read it, because names and stories become me familiar and nouances come to the fore.