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January 30, 2024 at 10:45 am #1860558

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Reading The Silmarillion is certainly not ‘impossible’, it’s just very different from the mass market bottom drawer lowest common denominator garbage that is 90+% of books….

The Hobbit is also one epic story – originally written for children, Tolkien’s own – in fact, the basic storyline is essentially the same as LotR, the latter being kind of an expanded, more ‘adult’ version of the former.

Neither are trilogies in the classical sense, the original definition of that term being something that consists of 3 parts – paintings, sculptures, buildings, tales – that can be viewed separate and in any order, but together form a cohesive whole.