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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
The problem with a lot of folks is that they came to the Silmarillion expecting a linear narrative with a continuing cast of characters, ala LoTR, and it isn't.
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Exactly. It's not a novel with a clear beginning, middle and end. It's a (make-believe) collection of myths, legends and tales, many of them not quite complete. A collection of stories that a story-teller could work with, to embellish and refine and work into proper new versions - just like has been done with myth collections such as the Norse eddas.
Though in this day and age I wonder how the copyright will play out if someone did. I have read that Tolkien hoped that his works would inspire and feed new works just like our old stories have done for centuries. But would any new story-teller, and writer, be allowed to actually do that legally? (I know there's lots of fan fiction but it's understanding that it's legally 'dodgy').
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Originally Posted by curtw
Titus Groan has now beaten me in three formats; the original written page, the BBC miniseries, and the the audiobook. For being such an epic, I have as yet been unable to get past the first "day" of subjective time in the novel. What does it take up--about the first 250 pages?
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I loved the BBC adaptation - gave me a way to approach the novel again (not that I finished
