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Urbane Guerrilla · 05-02-2011, 11:25 PM

The Silmarillion was indeed John Ronald Reul. Less a polished work than LOTR, and reads like a collection of annals. A handbook to the First and Second Age, if you like, and demonstrated JRRT's faculty for maintaining an ancient-days tone unjarred by modernistic words and stylings that will fray the thread that suspends disbelief. Visually rich enough you could do a series of Silmarillion calendars à la Brothers Hildebrandt. After Silmarillion (the eponymous story is only a portion of the book) the readability of the rest of the entire Tolkien Bookshelf drops off fast, and is only recommended for completists and thesis writing English majors.

I'd thought the classic "fangs" definition was the real orc one, even in the Tolkien scheme.

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Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	The Silmarillion was indeed John Ronald Reul. Less a polished work than LOTR, and reads like a collection of annals. A handbook to the First and Second Age, if you like, and demonstrated JRRT's faculty for maintaining an ancient-days tone unjarred by modernistic words and stylings that will fray the thread that suspends disbelief. Visually rich enough you could do a series of Silmarillion calendars à la Brothers Hildebrandt. After Silmarillion (the eponymous story is only a portion of the book) the readability of the rest of the entire Tolkien Bookshelf drops off fast, and is only recommended for completists and thesis writing English majors. I'd thought the classic "fangs" definition was the real orc one, even in the Tolkien scheme. __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course. Last edited by Urbane Guerrilla; 05-02-2011 at 11:32 PM.