Silmarils are a Girl's Best Friend
Okay, so at long last I am finally actually sitting down and reading The Silmarillion. I was going to re-read Lost Tales, but didn't. (Wow, useless sentence). So really I just finished the Valaquenta, and while I had a good idea about all of it before, I actually didn't know that the first vision of the Ainur wasn't Eä. Like I knew about the whole, "Therefore I say: Eä! Let these things Be!" but I didn't know that it came after the Music. Okay, so I'm Tolkien-retarded but I finally got that straightened out.
I liked the Valaquenta quite a bit. I mean, when I read the Lost Tales I had no idea about anything. I just picked up the first Tolkien book on the shelf and bought it--it was a pure stroke of luck that it happened to be book one in the Histories. So now that I knew an overview already, like the names of the Valar and what they were masters of, reading the extra stuff about them was pretty interesting.
*am ashamed at my non-Tolkien-geekiness* And I actually didn't know that the Valar and Valarien were Ainur. I was always confused about the distinction, of course, what with Melkor being an Ainur yet seemingly equal in power to Manwë and the other Valar. Now I see that, okay, Manwë and the other Valar are Ainur, too. Duh.
So Melkor is like a little geek. He was rejected by Varda who hooked up with his brother, so is now spreading evil and dissension throughout the world. I've always liked Melkor as a character, save the fact that he is the ultimate evil overlord, ruins everything, and brings pain and suffering to all the races of the world. Yeah, besides all that stuff, he's an interesting character.
I don't like Oromë too much, yet there's no reason not to, he just seems a little dislikeable and useless. You wanna talk about useless see Nessa and Vána. Nienna is probably my favorite, along with Varda. Ulmo's cool, too. I like him probably more than Manwë.
However, those 21 pages just gave me a lot of questions that I must look into on the Encyclopedia of Arda. So, that's all for now. Oh, and that letter in the beginning of the second edition, where it sums up all of the Eldar Days up to the end of the Second Age in only about 15 is real handy. I'm going to make Kurissa, Rion, and René all read it, so they have an idea of what I'm talking about when I go off on my rants. *am happy* :-D
I liked the Valaquenta quite a bit. I mean, when I read the Lost Tales I had no idea about anything. I just picked up the first Tolkien book on the shelf and bought it--it was a pure stroke of luck that it happened to be book one in the Histories. So now that I knew an overview already, like the names of the Valar and what they were masters of, reading the extra stuff about them was pretty interesting.
*am ashamed at my non-Tolkien-geekiness* And I actually didn't know that the Valar and Valarien were Ainur. I was always confused about the distinction, of course, what with Melkor being an Ainur yet seemingly equal in power to Manwë and the other Valar. Now I see that, okay, Manwë and the other Valar are Ainur, too. Duh.
So Melkor is like a little geek. He was rejected by Varda who hooked up with his brother, so is now spreading evil and dissension throughout the world. I've always liked Melkor as a character, save the fact that he is the ultimate evil overlord, ruins everything, and brings pain and suffering to all the races of the world. Yeah, besides all that stuff, he's an interesting character.
I don't like Oromë too much, yet there's no reason not to, he just seems a little dislikeable and useless. You wanna talk about useless see Nessa and Vána. Nienna is probably my favorite, along with Varda. Ulmo's cool, too. I like him probably more than Manwë.
However, those 21 pages just gave me a lot of questions that I must look into on the Encyclopedia of Arda. So, that's all for now. Oh, and that letter in the beginning of the second edition, where it sums up all of the Eldar Days up to the end of the Second Age in only about 15 is real handy. I'm going to make Kurissa, Rion, and René all read it, so they have an idea of what I'm talking about when I go off on my rants. *am happy* :-D