A new JRR Tolkien book ...?

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I’m a Tolkien junkie and will certainly read it eventually - my reading stack is just a bit too high at the moment, though.

The Silmarillion is a book that improves with each re-reading, I’ve found. The first time through, I was flummoxed by all of the names and interrelationships. The second time, the pieces started to fall into place. The third time, everything came together beautifully, and I loved it. It’s understandable, but unfortunate, that most readers don’t give it the time it needs. It’s certainly not light reading, but I’ve found it very rewarding.

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I agree. People should be advised that, if they don’t like the first part of the Silmarillion, they should skip ahead. Not just give up!

Personally, I love that mythology stuff. But not everybody does.

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lower lip wobbles

But-but-but tuition next year and school books… :frowning:

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You mean this isn’t one of your school books? Clearly, you’re in the wrong major ;).

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Okay, now when and why did it renamed “Narn i chin Hurin”?? It was “Narn i hin Hurin” in UT!!

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I blame Jay Leno.

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The Alan Lee illustrations are lovely.

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The worst thing is, you can take a special seminar on J.R.R. Tolkien in your first year here…

Is there linguistically a difference between ‘chin’ and ‘hin’? can’t remember Sindarin/Quenya off the top of my head

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:dubious:
It’s sindarin.
My most readily accessible sindarin texts all have ‘hin’ meaning ‘children’. I really can’t find much at all in either Quenya or Sindarin that starts with ‘ch’.

But I’m not a deep Eldarin linguist like Salo or the guys at Ardalambion.

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Begging your pardon. :slight_smile: I was about 95% sure it was Sindarin (sindarin?) but wasn’t completely sure…

I guess we can only hope this is the biggest thing that’s changed from the original manuscripts. bites lip

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I got mine. :smiley:

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Did it work?

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I feel better.

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Granted, of course. :smiley:

I was being facetious about the geekiness of JRRT fanatics, in chastising you with not automatically being able to differentiate a Sindarin phrase from a Quenyan. I have to look it up myself to be sure.

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I just got a call from the bookshop that they’ve got my copy. Yay!

But I’ve finally really got into The Baroque Cycle, but still have about 2000 pages to go. Boo!

What to do? What to do?

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Read each on alternate days?

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I think I’ll finish Quicksilver and then do the Narn. Panic over.

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My Precious…

I picked up the Book Tonight, I will probably start reading it this weekend.

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Finished it today at a leisurely pace.

No surprises. Virtually everything in it could be found in Sil, UT, and HOMES.

But it was really quite pleasant to be able to read it all in one place (rather than flipping through 14 volumes) straight through, without being distracted by footnotes, editorial inserts, alternate versions, and debates and expositions about name changes.

I found it even more powerful than before, and its continuity is the chiefest reason, IMHO. Seeing every passing possible moment of redemption being sabotaged by pride, hubris, ignorance, or the malice of Morgoth, just kept building to the climax.

A Túrin Turambar turun ambartanen: Master of doom by doom mastered.

A most appropriate epithet.

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I just started it late last night. You got me on a Terry Pratchett reading kick. I’ve knocked out about a dozen in the last month. Curse thee QtM, curse thee. Thank Erü for a new Tolkien book. Then I have been putting off a bio of Teddy Roosevelt. That is next, then I might devour another ½ dozen Discworld books.

Jim