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

**Dutch_guy** · 12-26-2005, 21:11

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** · 12-26-2005, 21:31

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** · 12-26-2005, 21:44

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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.

Originally Posted by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silmarillion

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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