Title: The creation of Middle Earth; a melodic song.
Review: I began the read and found myself bogged down with the weight of all the different names and how they related to each other. I put the book down. Later, I began again and took notes, chapter by chapter.The creation reads like a 'song', full of joy and sorrow, jealousy and vengence. Since reading the LOTR first, this style of prose was somewhat hard to get used to.Although I re-read LOTR, I have never re-read The Silmarillion. But it did give me more of an understanding of the complete history of Middle Earth (origin of Balrogs, Sauron...).
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