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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Nim: [QB] I didn't mean to sound sarcastic, just wanted to get Laos in there. :-) [QUOTE]distilled down to the pure facts without any of the storytelling flare that made them compelling.[/QUOTE]I guess that was Chris Tolkien's way of trying not to color his father's work with his own tone, just putting in what he found in the notes. I like that, and from what I've heard he isn't too good of an author himself, so it was probably for the best. There's one passage that sticks with me, a human that betrays his people by giving information to Morgoth in exchange for his lost wife, and Morgoth laughing and repaying him by "killing him in a most cruel way". I think it's a good example that there's a point to the absence of detail in the Silmarillion. You notice that the Valar or Eru was almost nonexistant in LOTR, except for when Gandalf is returned to the world or when Saruman dies and his spirit is scattered by a wind from the West. If the Valar and Morgoth where to be described and written in a typical fantasy-book perspective, like [i]"Mandos adjusted his ethereal robe and scratched his star-beard while thinking about what to do with F�anor, having come just yesterday into his halls of the dead. 'Hmmm!' he exclaimed, changing his constitution to float through the wall and talk to the elves in the other room."[/i] would ruin the detached way they are described in the Sil as it is. John Rhys-Davies discussed in the extra material for FOTR that you could mention in the book how Galadriel gives Gimli three strands of her hair as a gift, but you couldn't show it on-screen because it would look silly having him stand there with three flailing hairs in his glove and smiling. To "reimagine" the Silmarillion and embellish it by modern authors, the way Brian Herbert and Kevin Anderson have molested the corpse of Dune, would seem to me like repainting the Mona Lisa to get the colors out the way they might've looked like when they were one week old, instead of just accepting what's there. I didn't mean to go on so long and off-topic, it's just so seldom it comes up here and it's fun. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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