Return of the King

[Agathon]

I prefer the Silmarillion to any other Tolkien book. Then the Lost Tales and then LOTR.

[Ecthy]

going to the pictures in 2 hours

[chequita guevara]

The Sil is definately my favorate, and has been for twenty years . . . GOD, has it been that long?

[Q Classic]

maybe i'll give it another shot sometime soon. i had the same problem with it that i do with some textbooks for class.

i'll read a sentence. then i'll read it again. then i'll find myself twenty pages later with no recollection of the previous twenty. then i'll flip back. and then i'll fall asleep.

[Agathon]

Unlike some of you, I won't get to see ROTK until next week.

Tomorrow will be packed and I have to do some computer support work for a colleague.

Thursday, I have to spend the entire day at the satellite campus all because a student in my course plagiarized and there are only two buses all day.

Friday - Sunday, I have to mark the students' exam.

My life sucks

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Agathon
I prefer the Silmarillion to any other Tolkien book. Then the Lost Tales and then LOTR.

Im glad i went back and read the Silm, but i still enjoy LOTR more - part of its just that i prefer novels to mythic material, and part of is that Silm is too depressing.

[Ecthy]

mythic material rules, novel drools

[Jon Miller]

I will see it thursday

I really like the simarillion

I think a number of great movies could be mad eout of it

Jon Miller

[Ecthy]

Q: should they make a TV series?

A: no, because TV shows are too low budget.

[Donegeal]

The best thing that the Silmarillion does for me, is it puts LotR into perspective. The battle between Gandalf and the Balrog stands out far more. "God" (I forget his name) is the most powerful. Then the Valar (Of which is Melkor, later renamed Morgrath. Compares with todays idea of the Devil). Then the Mair (the Balrog, Sauron and the Wizards). IIRC, the Wizards were created and placed on Middle-Earth with the sole purpose of defeating Sauron.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by donegeal
The best thing that the Silmarillion does for me, is it puts LotR into perspective. The battle between Gandalf and the Balrog stands out far more. "God" (I forget his name) is the most powerful.

Iluvater.

Il - el - god in Hebrew (see also Allah)

Vater - father?

God the Father?

[Arrian]

Originally posted by donegeal
The best thing that the Silmarillion does for me, is it puts LotR into perspective. The battle between Gandalf and the Balrog stands out far more. "God" (I forget his name) is the most powerful. Then the Valar (Of which is Melkor, later renamed Morgrath. Compares with todays idea of the Devil). Then the Mair (the Balrog, Sauron and the Wizards). IIRC, the Wizards were created and placed on Middle-Earth with the sole purpose of defeating Sauron.

Yup, the Simarillion provides a backdrop to the LotR story.

Illuvatar - God
Valar - gods/archangels (Manwe, Melkor[Morgoth], etc)
Maiar - angels/servants of the Valar (Sauron, the Ishtari, the Balrogs, Melian)

And then of course there is Ungoliant, the giant spider thing that is "from outside the world." Of whom Shelob is a descendant.

-Arrian

[Bereta_Eder]

when is it out again?

[Ecthy]

tonight, tonight, toniight, oho...

[Bereta_Eder]

a damn i'll miss it tonight. but definitely tomorrow.


i'll also get a DVD when they'll have the LOTM amd matrix trilkogies out.