Silmarillon ?

My next goal after I finish reading LotR again is to read The Simlarillion. I'm a little scared because so many people have said it's hard to read. I shall conquer though!

Also, I can't exactly say whether Arwen and Eowyn are hot, but Eowyn is my hero. Not to mention Arwen is a completely blown up character while Eowyn goes into battle. 65 days til RotK!!!

57 days till rotk! i think silmarilian is prety good so far...

Originally posted by Ushgarak
No it won't, such a project is pointless.

And Chris Tolkien makes it VERY clear in the Preface that his father did not finish the work, and reminds us...

do you have a clue what Silmarillon is? To educate you: It's the next bonafile book JRR Tolkien 'the man himself' actually "finished".

It's not published when he's alive, the publisher was initially overblown by it's broadness and in depth epical storyline.. so the publisher pushed JRR to write another.. LOTR was born...

Even LOTR's core story and heart came from Sil's origins as Sil's origins

here's a bit of infos about silmarillon:
http a.1asphost.com/lotrmovie/HTML/books.asp

Yes Chis edited it, and yes the preface said that... For all you know, Chris is just being humble and felt a few edit's to JRR's work is a mortal sin..

The point is : it's JRR's work.

Ush never said Tolkien didn't do it
he just said it wasn't finished at the time it was published and I dunno what your version of it says in the preface, but mine says exactly that.

Tolkien made several versions he WANTED to publish (but they didnt take it) but the problem is that he often changed things 😉
But the final Silmarillion edition IS by Ronny, though Chris edited it.