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“I enjoyed this book. I have read it many times. It isn't really a narrative like we are used to reading. More like a series of magazine articles. There are some great stories in it. I would really like to see it turned into a dozen movies or so. None made by Peter Jackson. I doubt this will ever happen since it isn't a best seller. Some of the things that the Lord of the Rings movies did right could help here. For instance, we never really see Boromirs last stand in the book. We are told...”
“My least favorite Tolkein book. It's very confusing and seems to want to be more centered on names and places than on story building.”
“My question to those who have read The Silmarillion: What was your initial expectation when you began reading? I think that expectations are INCREDIBLY important to satisfaction with a book (or movie, meal, etc.), and anyone who cracked this one open expecting The Hobbit would be sorely disappointed. What do you wish you had known before you began reading that would have helped you appreciate it more?”
“This was a hard book to read. While all his novels (as with most fantasy novels) have new words for everything, at least there is a story running through. This book was disjointed.”