Tolkien Fans gotta check this out

R-A-N-M-A · Post by **R-A-N-M-A** » Tue Dec 31, 2002 1:54 am

http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/

Complete history of the events surrounding Tolkiens lore as toled in the simarillion, Lord of the rings, The hobbit, The 2 books of lost tales and his other works in an encyclopedia style I first found it looking for Sauron pictures but its great I can't stop reading about it, I wanna read the simarillion now.

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Tue Dec 31, 2002 2:00 am

Tolkien fans can also check this out:

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_pag ... 80,00.html <-- Tolkien's translation and essay on Beowulf discovered.

from karna in #japan-a-radio

Kracus · Post by **Kracus** » Tue Dec 31, 2002 8:12 am

Pretty cool

tamashii · Post by **tamashii** » Tue Dec 31, 2002 11:15 am

I have the hobbit and I'm planing to get the simarillion one.

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Tue Dec 31, 2002 1:13 pm

tamashii wrote:I have the hobbit and I'm planing to get the simarillion one.

The Silmarillion will make no sense unless you've read LotR first. Also, it reads like a history textbook. Just a word of warning.

tamashii · Post by **tamashii** » Tue Dec 31, 2002 1:53 pm

trythil wrote:
tamashii wrote:I have the hobbit and I'm planing to get the simarillion one.
The Silmarillion will make no sense unless you've read LotR first. Also, it reads like a history textbook. Just a word of warning.

I watched the movies

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Tue Dec 31, 2002 1:55 pm

tamashii wrote:
trythil wrote:
tamashii wrote:I have the hobbit and I'm planing to get the simarillion one.
The Silmarillion will make no sense unless you've read LotR first. Also, it reads like a history textbook. Just a word of warning.
I watched the movies

Is this a joke?

The movies are not the book, no matter how you try to justify it. There's a wealth of information on the history, society, lingustics, philosophy, religion, etc. in Middle-Earth that is simply not clearly conveyed in the movies. If you ever hope to understand The Silmarillion, you must read the book. Period.

tamashii · Post by **tamashii** » Tue Dec 31, 2002 2:01 pm

trythil wrote:
tamashii wrote:
trythil wrote:
tamashii wrote:I have the hobbit and I'm planing to get the simarillion one.
The Silmarillion will make no sense unless you've read LotR first. Also, it reads like a history textbook. Just a word of warning.
I watched the movies
Is this a joke?

The movies are not the book, no matter how you try to justify it. There's a wealth of information on the history, society, lingustics, philosophy, religion, etc. in Middle-Earth that is simply not clearly conveyed in the movies. If you ever hope to understand The Silmarillion, you must read the book. Period.

Sorry didn't mean to offend you professor. Which one do you suppose I read? I mean there is only like 50 versions to chose from.

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Tue Dec 31, 2002 2:06 pm

tamashii wrote: Sorry didn't mean to offend you professor. Which one do you suppose I read? I mean there is only like 50 versions to chose from.

Dude, there's one version of LotR. Tolkien's. Whatever or not you get it in three books or one, it's the same text.

I'm also no authority on Middle-Earth or any of its components. It's just that you can't read something like The Silmarillion and expect to have a chance of understanding it from watching the movies alone, because it's a book that deals very deeply with the internal history of Middle-Earth -- details that you can only get from Tolkien's writing.

tamashii · Post by **tamashii** » Tue Dec 31, 2002 2:12 pm

Dude, there's one version of LotR. Tolkien's. Whatever or not you get it in three books or one, it's the same text.

Funny because I went to the book store and there was:

1. 1 book = about 1000+ pages
2. 3 books = each book about 500+ pages
3. 6 books = each only about 100 pages

Notice the difference in text

1. Low 1000
2. close to 2000 if you added it up
3. about 700-800 hundred

So which one's the real one. Should I buy the one with the most text or is that a bunch of more descriptive crap added that I really don't need to read. Or should I read the #3 one only to find out there are parts missing in it?

Oh and thats only one bookstore. I went on the internet and there were at least 50 versions of it.