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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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Reading this today.
I've read this story many times, in multiple versions. It's always exceptionally beautiful and moving.
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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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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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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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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.
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I can't believe I almost missed Tolkien Reading Day! But here I am to raise a toast to our favourite professor!
My friends make fun of me because I often say, “This is one of my favourite Tolkien quotes,“ and they say, “They are all your favourite quotes!“ LOL! I suppose they are right.
But this quote would make any reader's heart sing!
Happy Tolkien Reading Day!
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This is another action-packed chapter. So many important things happen here.
True to Tolkien's applicability, Feanor's death can be interpreted as his last act of selfishness, but l think, also as his legacy of action to a people that would tend to pause.
The story of Mahedros and Fingon is one of the most endearing in the Silmarillion. They are among Tolkien's best characters. I wish we knew more about them.
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It kind of annoys me that we'll never know what Men ran away from. What was that shadow they feared but could not fight. We can imagine, of course, but it's obvious that Tolkien intended it as a mystery that needs to be accepted as such.
History is mysterious. Some things, we will never know. He created his history in the same way.
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The creation of the Sun and Moon must be one of the loveliest such myths I've ever heard.
And l love that Tolkien adopted the ancient belief that the Sun is feminine and the Moon is masculine. And l love that Arien is the most powerful of the two and that, even as a fire spirit, she was not swayed by Morgoth and didn't become a Balrog. In fact, as the Sun, she was among his mightiest enemies.
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I really love how Tolkien, here, give us a glimpse of what was happening in Middle-earth while the Valar 'were not looking'.
It gives a sense of a more complex tapestry, as well as a sense that important things happen outside what we consider our world.
Significant things might be happening to us, but what happens in the larger world will eventually impact our life.
So, l finally agree with my boss a different arrangement of my shifts. From today, l should have more time to dedicate to my passions.
I expect this will positively impact my activity on Litsy too 😁
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It was hard to choose just three pictures!!
This action-packed chapter is, in my opinion, one of the best in the book. Certainly the most epic, with all the vows and the prophesies and the curse. And yet, also so very human, with all those flaws taking over action and decisions.
I love the idea of the Doom of Mandos. Repitedly, it will resurface in the book, almost with its own will. It's an incredible idea.
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I've never noticed quite this clearly, but the way Morgoth sways the Noldor is very similar to the way Sauron will sway the Numenoreas.
There are many similarities: the lies believed as truths, the divided people, the rebellion against the Valar, the feeling of displacement. The idea of the exile and the fall seem to be present in both stories, which are therefore subtly connected.
What do you think?
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#Silmarillion new edition
Oh, my goodness! I want it! 😱 I need it! 🤩
Give it to me now!!!!!
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Here, in a nutshell, is Tolkien's complex discourse about what is good and what is evil, what is right and what is wrong. And the reason why these concepts often mix and merge and telling one from the other may become very difficult.
It is, in my opinion, a beautiful passage.
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On first read, it's maybe hard to tell, because at this point, so many things have already happened, but here (in my opinion) is were the story of the Silmarillion truly starts.
Morgoth lusting over the Silmarilli. What a powerful idea.
Melkor is a very 'strange' villain, in my opinion. On the surface, he's very basic: he's pure evil. Yet, the ways his evil works is very very complex.
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I'm fascinated with the relationship between Tolkien and Feanor, which started kind of carelessly (in the first draft of the legendary I'm, Feanor and the Silmarilli were clearly just a storytelling devise) and the evolved throughout the author's life.
Feanor is one of my favourite characters in the Silmarillion. Such a complex, difficult, complicated character.
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The way Tolkien creates environments and realms always has a magica, poetic quality to it. It seems to me as these places have a personality of their own, as if they too were characters in the story.
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Once, l heard a discussion among fans about whether it was true love between Thingol and Melian, or she had been sent to Middle-earth specifically to enchant him.
I've always thought it is true love, but l was fascinated by the fact that both things were possible.
(Ps: Tolkien does answer the question in HoME 😜)
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"Thus it was that the Valar found at last, as it were by chance, those whom they had so long awaited. And Oromë looking upon the Elves was filled with wonder, as though they were beings sudden and marvellous and unforeseen.”
I love this idea that even if the song has already been sung, there remains always a sense of wonder. The concept of Destiny is very complex in Tolkien.
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So, then. Anyone who's read Tolkien with me in the past knows of my love for the Dwarves. But, l mean, come on! How beautiful is it this origin story? 🤩
I love this chapter also because of the interaction among the Valar. Is it my impression, or - strange as it might sound - there is never much interaction among the Valar? 🤔
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For some reason, I've always loved the story of the Lamps of the Valar and l wish Tolkien had written more about them. The idea of these gigantic lamps illuminating the world... I don't know. There's something magical about it. And then their ruin...
But then, the first part of the Silmarillion, where only the Valar are there, is all exceptionally magical and poetic.
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Tolkien put together a fantastic cast of characters here.
I find that every Vala has something special to love, but over time, I've become particularly attached to Manwe, Ulmo and Nienna.
Who are your favourite Valar? 😁
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It doesn't matter how many times l read it, the Ainulindele will always touch my heart with his beauty. It is such a poetic origine story. But also, the deeper you get into the lore, the more essential elements in Tolkien's philosophy you can discern here.
I love the idea that the word was born in music. And that music still survives in the sound of the sea.
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I've read this letter so many times, but l always enjoy it.
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@Daisey asked to see our editions. This is mine. Nothing spectacular. But l got this years ago from an exchange here on Litsy, and l love it 🤩
This is currently my only English edition of The Silmarillion. Of course l need more!
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I've just seen than my las post was a month ago 😶
So sorry for disappearing. February has been an exceptionally busy and kind of a bothersome month. But l really care for this readaling and this fantastic group of readers and l keep telling me next read will be better
I still want to finish reading what I've left out and catch up with all your posts.
Let's start immediately! 💪😁
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Why Tolkien's books always end on a sad note? 😢
I enjoyed this short collection a lot more than the first time that l read it, years ago. Maybe because now l can place it a little better among the other stories of Middle-earth.
A surprise number of them talk about journeys in a morm or another.
I didn't realise this the first time.
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Yes, l am late, but l will finish this today!
These two #NetGalley ARCs expired the same day. I planned to read both books because l had time, if l was quick, and started Murder in Mistletoe Lane, because l usually enjoy cosy mysteries.
But l found so hard slogging through the chitchat, the family drama, all the christmassy set up.
So l thought, let's try the other one.
I initially really enjoyed The New Detective. ⬇️
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This may seem a transition chapter, yet - l believe - we find here the core of Tolkien's philosophy.
In the way the friends come together and slowly take stock of what happend and how they were change, with a hint that the change might bring good things.
And in the last debate, where Gandalf guides toward doing the right thing in the time assigned to us, as others will do in their time.
Loved it!
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I love this chapter!
After so many epic events, here we go back to a human/hobbit scale. The characters arc back to how they were at the beginning of the story.
It really feels like going home after the terror of the war.
The dialogue between Strider and Merry always makes me laugh 😂
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Here we go 😁
@Daisey l told you l got this because of you 😂
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I did write a short blog to celebrate Tolkien's birthday. I'm late as usual, but here it is 😁
https://theoldshelter.com/conquering-sauron-with-the-ring-jrr-tolkiens-birthday-...
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I'm already slacking on my new year resolutions. I'm late here, bu l hope to catch ap today.
Thanks so much to @Daisey for putting the schedule together. Maybe the weekly rhythm will suit me better 😜
How is everyone else getting on?
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I'm always so sad to finish the Letters from Father Christmas because it's a melancholy ending. During the war, with Tolkien finally giving up on a tradition he kept for over 20 years.
But this is a wonderful book, full of joy (for the most part) and the obvious love of a dad for his children.
It always warms my heart.
So, since the 'Murder in Mistletoe Lane' wasn't doing much for me, l decided to start this #NetGalley ARC too. Both ARCS will expire the same day
Well, I've only read three chapters, but I'm hooked 😁
This is a mystery story set in Munich right before and right after WWI.
Totally up my alley 😜
Let's see whether l can read this #NetGalkey #ARC before it expires 😜
On the homebound train. Can't wait for the weekend.
Sorry for the long silent, especially to my fellow #LotRChapterADay readers. It's an hellish period. I hope things will look up and in the new year, though.
I hope to finish Return of the King over Christmas. I'm behind with #TolkienChristmas but l expect to catch up tonight.
I have two #NetGalley ARCs expiring before the year ends, will probably manage to read just one.
Let's keep up! 💪😁
No. I'm sorry, but no. I read the first couple of books in this series and l really enjoyed them. Cox can write some strong characters. But this?
It's the end of the series and there's a lot of drama (even too much, that's of course just my feeling), but then everything (and l mean *everything*) works out just perfectly for everyone. Doesn't feel real to me.
The mystery is very lame, as is the revelation 'a la Poirot'.
Such a shame 😟
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This is one of those chapters you think, why does it have to go this way? It could go differently. And yet, this is at the core of Tolkien's majore themes: when we let despair get hold of us, it may do worse that any of our enemies.
That moment Gandalf hesitates on the gate, knowing that he has to choose and whatever choice he will make will be the end of someone... It just wrecked me.
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I mean. How is it l didn't remember how packed full of... Everything this chapter is?
I always remember Theoden's death, that always, always gets me. And if course l remember Eowyn's reveal, which should be every woman's battlecry (in my opinion), but somehow l didn't remember the battle, the Denethor's tragedy, Eomer's rage and then hope, the release of Aragorn's arrival.
It's just incredible.
I was expecting something better, honestly.
The setting was nice and the cast of characters was good, though l found Phyllida more over the top as the story progressed. I know the author does that in an amusing way, but it didn't really worked for me.
The mystery was most disappointing .It was a bit airy and yet l guessed the culprit very early on. The investigation was based on dialogue and it didn't feel like progressing until the end.
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I'm behind with everything, but I'm keeping up with this.
And I'm loving it 💚
How is everyone faring?
@Daisey @wordslinger42 @BookwormAHN @Riveted_Reader_Melissa @BethM @TheAromaOfBooks @Susanita @Roary47 @TheBookDream @dabbe @Vansa @Chrys @majkia @Fortifiedbybooks @Lizpixie @BarbaraJean @Born.A.Reader @Larkken @Clare-Dragonfly @mabell @Liatrek @tdrosebud @curiouserandcurioser @Desha @slategreyskies
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Keeping up at the moment 😁
I love the simplicity of these stories. They are so endearing.
And sometime l fancy that some of Tolkien's own life transpires. He must have been busy with his job if he couldn't write two letters.
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Thanks so much to @Daisey for this beautifully Chstmast-sy schedule 😘
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I haven't finished Return of the King yet, but I'm going to start this and see whether l can keep up with this, at least 🤦
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Sorry for the delay, guys. It's been a busy week and I'm still on the Road with the Rohirrim! But I'll try to catchup with weekend.
In the meantime, here is the schedule of the Appendices.
And what could we ever read in December? 😏