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Old 03-19-2024, 05:43 AM   #25
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Originally Posted by rantanplan View Post
I have finished The Silmarillion on Sunday. The book was a bit challenging, but not as bad as I imagined it would be. It was a beautiful, but sometimes quite frustrating read, because most of it deals with
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Melkor/Morgoth killing all the people you just started caring about
. The book also paints the Elves in a very dark light, from the Lord of the Rings I wouldn't have imagined them as so petty and cruel.
That darkness and edge is probably one of the reasons it's my favourite JRRT
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