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Old 01-01-2007, 03:26 PM   #1
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Old 06-16-2007, 06:11 PM   #2
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Old 06-16-2007, 06:24 PM   #3
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as opposed to cosmogonical, of course, which would only refer to the Ainulindalë specifically.
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(Seems like it'd be the Bible of Middle-Earth, does it not?)
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Old 06-24-2011, 08:56 AM   #9
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Old 08-04-2011, 06:58 AM   #10
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Macalaure spoke: The Silmarillion in one word.
Since the Sil is not as universally loved as the LotR, I'm looking forward to some controversy!

Leperous
corrupting; poisonous

I like Lord of the Rings pure. Not with all that fungal growth attached to it. That stuff is toxic.
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Old 08-04-2011, 07:21 AM   #11
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I like Lord of the Rings pure. Not with all that fungal growth attached to it. That stuff is toxic.
I do not quite understand how The Sil is "fungal growth". And it's not "attatched" to LOTR - more the opposite; even though LOTR was published first, The Sil was the original idea.

Can you please explain why you think so?

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Old 08-04-2011, 08:02 AM   #12
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Galadriel55 spoke: [I do not quite understand how The Sil is "fungal growth".]
A metaphor and a joke on a Hobbit's love of mushrooms.

Galadriel55 spoke: [And it's not "attatched" to LOTR - more the opposite; even though LOTR was published first, The Sil was the original idea.]
Oh, I'm quite aware of the relationships. Moreso than you would believe.

Galadriel55 spoke: [Can you please explain why you think so?]
The ideas in The Silmarillion were quite "fluid" when it came to writing Lord of the Rings. I liked that Gil-Galad was the only son of Feanor, that Neldoreth (home of Thingol and Melian) was the forest abutting the Sea of Rhun (see HOME War of the Ring; the second map) and other massive changes that he was considering when writing Lord of the Rings.

Those stories were meant as a backdrop, not something to be forever encapsulated in Silma and sworn an oath by.

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Old 08-04-2011, 08:31 AM   #13
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In that case, we will just have to disagree. I think that The Sil is a beautiful work, even if it wasn't completed by JRRT.
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Old 08-04-2011, 09:37 AM   #14
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In that case, we will just have to disagree. I think that The Sil is a beautiful work, even if it wasn't completed by JRRT.
I think this guy's just trolling, G55– see his post on the "Why is it so difficult" thread.
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Old 08-04-2011, 09:56 AM   #15
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Galadriel55 spoke: [In that case, we will just have to disagree]
Yeppers.

Nice summation of the exisitng words used in the thread so far.
Good work.

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Yeah... No--that's not it.
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Old 08-04-2011, 09:25 AM   #16
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Fateful (Ang)
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Engaging (Valier)
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Unfortunate (Lhuna)
Tragic (Elempi)
Multi-charactered (Firefoot)
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Overpowering (Captain Grishnahk)
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"Totally" (Alatar)
Tome-ish (Alatar)
Preliminary (Pio)
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Long (Enca)
Morgoth (Child)
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Bold (Elempi)
Lore (TM)
Epic (High King Fingolfin)
Stupendous (Morm)
Doomed! (Guinevere)
Dry (Liriodendron)
Sombre (Guinevere)
Colossal (Galadel Vinorel)
Fate (TM)
Convincing (Legate)
Sacred (Amras Oronar)
Bare-boned (Pio)
"The Bible of ME" (Boromir_bg)
Magnificient (Lommy)
Historical (yavanna II)
Debated (Elempi)
Unfinished (hild)
Ethereal (Elmo)
Compicated (Orominuialwen)
Intense (Shieldmaiden4xsword)
Compelling (Tar-Meneldur)
Doctored (Bb)
Emended (Bb)
Nascent (Pio)
Tertiary (Son of Numenor)
Nutty (Lal)
Layered (Laitoste)
Loss (Thena)
Revealing (luthien-elvenprincess)
nakakapagpabagabag (Lhuna)
"The 'l' of a story" (Bb)
Bleak (ADubiousSource)
Iluvatar (ADubiousSource)
Tragedy (Thena)
Destiny (Thena)
History (Thena)
Bible (Thena)
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Overcomplex (Sir Kohran)
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Didactic (Ibrin)
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Changed/Edited (Eonwe)
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Elegiac (Lush)
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Lovely (Rune)
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Broken (Tietäjä)
Enchanting (Agan)
Impossible (Diane C)
Frustrating (TheOrcWithNoName)
Sublime (Eomer)
Grand (Zil)
Eternal (G55)
Nostalgia (Galadriel)
Powerful (G55)
Transcendent (Ozban)
Beautiful (G55)
Emotional (Ren the Unclean)
Rough (Cirdan)
Legendary (oddkins)
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Valor (spirit_of_fire)
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Leperous (FlimFlamSam)
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