The Most Happiest, Healthiest and Sexiest City (Part 2)

[LeftEyeNine]

I had borrowed Silmarillion from a friend.. And well.. I think he forgot all about the book..Like I did..

About Silmarillion, it looks original... And quite enduring and stubborn for a book..

It's clear, I think, Dutch Guy

However, friend says that Silmarillion is like the encyclopedia of Tolkien's fantasy world. It includes the previous ages' incidents, introductions to the main races and characters. One fan should read it, me thinks..

[Dutch_guy]

well thanks for the heads up, or should I say warning LEN.

Have no idea if I'm going to give it a go, probably will since I'm a fan of the series but haven't made up my mind just yet.

[AntiochusIII]

Silmarillion is pretty fun. It's all "epic" and melodramatic (imagine those super-exaggerated epithets used by Homer&co.) but it's nice to know how things used to happen before the Lord of the Rings' events.

Its writing style is different from LotR, though, and conversations aren't very "natural." Imagine reading Homer: you can't find any traces of normal (not dramatic, not epic, not storytelling) conversations in the Iliad whatsoever.

It also have different parts, or at least my version does. The earliest (a "Genesis" for LotR) part is very boring and confusing, the "Silmarillion" itself is pretty fun, and the "epilogue" (I can't remember the name of that part) reads like a timeline-based history book, which is fun for me since I'm a (yet another) Tolkein fanatic.

[Mouzafphaerre]

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LEN, NWC is in the public beta stage of version 2 for the last couple of years. Much progress has been done but there is still a lot to be added/optimized. Cubase is completely alien territory for me, which I'll need to explore, and in Cakewalk I merely wandered with a tourist visa. Just synchronizing some midi and audio tracks, playing with the volume here and there and copy-pasting.

There's a cool wiki portal for Tokien's stuff and this Encyclopedia of Arda.

The Silmarillion is a collection of J. R. R. Tolkien's works, edited and published posthumously by his son Christopher R. Tolkien, with assistance from fantasy fiction writer Guy Gavriel Kay. (...) The earliest drafts of The Silmarillion date back to as early as 1925, when Tolkien wrote a 'Sketch of the Mythology'. However, the concepts for characters, themes, and specific stories were developed starting in 1917 when Tolkien, then a British officer stationed in France during World War I was laid up in a military field hospital with trench fever. (...) He renewed work on The Silmarillion after completing The Lord of the Rings, when he greatly desired to publish the two works together. But when it became clear that would not be possible, Tolkien turned his full attention back to preparing The Lord of the Rings for publication.

His son, Christopher, finally edited and published it, and other works.

LEN, if it is the original (English, not translated) version I can buy it.
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[LeftEyeNine]

LEN, if it is the original (English, not translated) version I can buy it.

Well, in the previous posts above, I got you wrong. You know what "original" brings into your mind at first in Turkey My book is a Turkish one

[Mouzafphaerre]

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Yep. Well, I'll knock knock the ebay again then.
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[Mikeus Caesar]

Happiest, healthiest and sexiest city? Baghdad!

[Fragony]

Silmarillion is like the encyclopedia of Tolkien's fantasy world.

Not a place I would like to go. Common, two guys from a world full of fairy's go through all sort of trouble to climb a mountain with a ring; if that doesn't scream closet homosexual I don't know what is.

[The Stranger]

All vote for Umeugrad

[Byzantine Prince]

Um, no New York, no vote from BP.

[Mikeus Caesar]

All vote for Umeugrad

That's the most original thing i've heard in a long time.

If i could, i would give you a gold star!

[The Stranger]

well thank you my friend