/lit/ - Literature

I fell asleep to the audio book and woke up seven hours later having no idea what was going on.

>>17997361
Yes when I was a kid. Does this answer satisfy your thirst for knowledge, or should I begin the Tom Bombadil posting?

>>17997361
It’s way too archaic to be enjoyable to me.The stories themselves are interesting, but the way it’s written can’t get me invested at all.

>>17997380
You should post elves pls.
Feanor did nothing wrong.

>>17997388
This

>>17997374
So you haven’t read it? You’ve listened to it.

>>17997361
Many times.

>>17997361
Yes.

>>17997361
Yeah

>>17997361
About half. It's not really something to read, rather a reference to skip around with.

>>17997361
It's currently propping open my backdoor
Never opened it

>>17997361
Many times. Very great book if you're a lonely male in your late teens or early 20s. Any older than that, you should graduate on to the real thing: The Holy Bible

Several times. I hated it when I first read it as a preteen dink but I actually love it nowadays.

I enjoy the world building, the somewhat fleshed out history and mythology.

Is purdy comfee read. My favorite Tolkien stuff next to The Hobbit.

>>17997361
Has anyone read this without having read LotR beforehand?

>>17997625
filtered

>>17997479
What difference does it make?

People who view it as "LOTR lore" are really missing the point. The Silmarillion is an artistic work in its own right, an epic of the war of the noldor. It happens to take place in middle earth

>>17997679
Me. I was ruined by the movies and had no desire to read the original trilogy.

>>17997666
>666

Melkor/Morgoth detected

>>17997361
Yea

>>17997493
Butterfly, you'll never be as pretty as her. Even in your prime, you were less than her right shoulder, and now, everyday, you age more and more ugly.

>>17997374
Almost exactly me.

>>17997706
Powerful and based

>>17997686
Not autistic, sorry.

>>17997735
It’s a cartoon, yo.

>>17997923
Butterfly, thanks for giving me LWA reaction images that one time on /wsr/. I was kind of amazed you browsed outside of /lit/.

No i don't read genre fiction, you plebian.

>>17997963
I haven’t been to /wsr/

All I remember is the crossing of this massive length of land to middle earth that was mountainous and most people died on the way there.

>>17997361
Yes, and it's amazing. Don't get me wrong, reading about the geography of Beleriand is boring as hell, but the stories and the prose make it worth it. Hell, the Ainulindale and the story of Turin Turambar alone are worth going through the whole book, but there are great stories peppered throughout.

Advice to people who can't seem to get through it: my first read was a slough. I had to force myself through because it felt like an impenetrable wall of confusing names and geographical locations. My second read was much more enjoyable, like relearning the grammar of a language you studied in high school. My third read, I really was able to appreciate the subtleties and the grandeur of the stories. Basically, just make yourself read it and then read it again.

>>17997361
No, sounds like a complete waste of time.

>>17998636
its not what people have made it out to be. its not a lotr history text. Its more akin to an epic

>>17997361
I've tried but honestly it's just so fucking boring. But I plan on trying again in the future

>>17997361
no

>>17997393
Feanor was the first Eldar to have developed testosterone in his system.
Valinor was a nanny-state.
The Teleri were slothful and lacked determination.
Vanyar were a bunch of limp-wristed fags who were pampered by the Valar too much.
Only the Noldor who followed Feanor were worth a shit.

>>17997374
LOL same

>>17997361
I read it. I think it's great.

THis is my favorite passage from it.

>>17999529
>And Morgoth came.
Why is this line so kino?

>>17997361
Yes, twice. I first read it when I was 14 and had my Tolkien phase. I read it a second time last autumn, and enjoyed it a bit more for some reason.

>>17997666
>Checks 'em
Go back to Thangorodrim

>>17997361
Yes, It's fucking epic.

>>17997388
>he didnt get hyped at fingolfin's duel
all of you are plebs, i cant believe i share a board with you

>>17997361
Yeah it's fine. Very uneven tho

>>17997679
yes, I sincerely find some of these stories more interesting than lotr and hobbit.
>>17999741
i read it when 14 too, been waiting 5ish years to read it again, saving it for when i need phenomenal amounts of comfy.

>>17997493
ywnbaw

>>17999535
At this point in the Silmarillion the reader knows very well just how powerful Morgoth is. They understand that Fingolfin is on a suicidal quest. The text doesn't beat you over the head with it though. It's restrained, almost unwilling to dwell on it. "And Morgoth came." says nothing about the foolishness of challenging not-Satan to single combat, but in not saying anything emphasises the gravity of the situation.

>>17997361
yeah, it's better than the trilogy.
obviously my brain shuts down when he goes on and on about landscape, but the lore is awesome.
Unfinished Tales, now THAT is a drag. Never managed to finish it

>>17997923
It’s still true.

Currently reading, loving it.

Were they a severe case of a marry sue and gary stu?

>>17998054
>geography of Beleriand is boring as hell

I Have a hard time visualising all the places but this atlas, even if unofficial, helps a little

>>17998031
Going across the frozen wastes because their bros had gone by boat and then just burned the boats when they got to the shore instead of sending them back.

>>17999535
I’m not sure how to articulate it, but it has a similar power to “Jesus wept.” Something about its simplicity and the suggestion of power through plain statement. Makes me think of Hemingway’s Iceberg Theory.

>>18001131
>burning those swan boats

Serious dick move, Feänor.

>>17998054
I would add to this that it becomes more readable around halfway through when the narratives focuses more closely on particular people and events rather than the much larger scope of the earlier book. Also the reading is much more enjoyable when you can actually follow who is who by referring to the family trees in the index. Lots of the names sound similar and some characters have multiple names so I think that's where a lot of readers get lost.

>>18001079
What book is this from?

>>18001156
http://calameo.download/0027223123c2885bc5ed1

>>18001254
>http://calameo.download/0027223123c2885bc5ed1
thank you fren

>>17997361
I've listened to audiobook, yes.

>>17997361
Yeah.

>>18001561
what would pol say about mixing between elves and humans

>>18002366
Arwen was degenerate

>>17997361
Yes, more than once. In French and in English.
Amazing book.

I'm struggling through it because so much information is contained in each sentence that it's easy to get confused if you miss something.

>>18002366
The shills would hate it but most would like it.

>>18002649
mfw this part

>The sons of Hador were Galdor and Gundor; and the sons of Galdor were Húrin and Huor; and the son of Húrin was Túrin the Bane of Glaurung; and the son of Huor was Tuor, father of Eärendil the Blessed. The son of Boromir was Bregor, whose sons were Bregolas and Barahir; and the sons of Bregolas were Baragund and Belegund. The daughter of Baragund was Morwen, the mother of Túrin, and the daughter of Belegund was Rían, the mother of Tuor. But the son of Barahir was Beren One-hand, who won the love of Lúthien Thingol's daughter, and returned from the Dead; from them came Elwing the wife of Eärendil, and all the Kings of Númenor after.

How many times does Turin changes his name?

>>18003065
>he wrote this for fictional characters

This and Lost Tales were the only Tolkien books I could read. I think I tried to read the Hobbit and LOTR at least twice each and both times I couldn't stomach the first few chapters but I read the Silmarillion twice and enjoyed it both times. Granted I was 14

>>18003065
just look at the family trees in the back nigga

>>18003208
I always keep this handy when reading Silmarillion

Question.
How in blazes did almost all of Beleriand got sunken down, even some of the tallest mountains?

>>18003236

>book wheel has seven shelves and not eight

absolutelydisgusting.jpg

>>17997374

>>17997361
Yes, thrice

>>17997361
Yep, it's very good. Also, Feanor is best elf

>>18004794
Fingolfin is cooler.

>>18001031
>that pic

>>18003065
my wife was filtered hard by this part when I read it to her