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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] [QUOTE]The tale of Hurin I like because it involves other characters established before the events of the story (Glaurung, Morgoth) and is weaved into a few of the humongous battles against Morgoth on the plains outside Angband.[/QUOTE]Now see that's my problem right there. I'm a very visual thinker, part of being artistic and all these weird made up names make it very difficult for me to actually picture what's going on. With LotR it wasn't so bad as most of the hokie pokie first & second age stuff was told more or less in passing and related to something in the narrative - the origin of the Ring and Gollum, snippits here and there about Elrond's childhood memories or the musings of Treebeard - all reasonable easy to digest. The only bit where you have to swallow all the exposition at once is the Council of Elrond but even that's more or less linear and builds on what you already know. The Silmarillion on the other had reads like the book of Genesis, with begotting and giants and waking up piles of ash and calling them elidarundiwotzit in the land of brushynekkiway that walked with a bit of a limp in the spring. I can read the words, I can see where a sentence begins and that a full stop means it's finished, but somewhere in between I get lost and have the sudden urge to be afraid of giant spiders. Even when I really try I usually spend half the time flicking back and forth to the appendices, trying to keep track of what's what and who's where and how Maiar are old men with huge beards AND ancient god like beings who smoke pot. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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