The Silmarillion in one word - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Laitoste · 01-22-2007, 08:04 PM

Layered

***Thenamir*** · 01-24-2007, 12:55 PM

I think the one word that sums up the Silmarillion, at least as I see it, it that it is many threads most dealing with...

Loss.

Son of Númenor · 01-24-2007, 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Thenamir

I think the one word that sums up the Silmarillion, at least as I see it, it that it is many threads most dealing with...

Loss.

What exactly is it that's lost?

***Thenamir*** · 01-24-2007, 02:06 PM

There are so many responses to this that my keyboard is smoking. In various losses of innocence, of perfection, of the trees, Silmarils, kingdoms, freedoms, lives, loves...though there are victories of "good" over "evil" here and there, the Silmarillion reads to me in sum like a long, slow defeat with periodic respites. A more detailed analysis of this topic might merit a separate thread from this one-word idea.

luthien-elvenprincess · 01-28-2007, 09:18 AM

revealing

01-22-2007, 08:04 PM	#1
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01-24-2007, 12:55 PM	#2
*Thenamir* Spectre of Capitalism Join Date: May 2001 Location: Battling evil bureaucrats at Zeta Aquilae Posts: 987	I think the one word that sums up the Silmarillion, at least as I see it, it that it is many threads most dealing with... Loss. __________________ The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. ~~ Marcus Aurelius

01-24-2007, 02:06 PM	#4
*Thenamir* Spectre of Capitalism Join Date: May 2001 Location: Battling evil bureaucrats at Zeta Aquilae Posts: 987	There are so many responses to this that my keyboard is smoking. In various losses of innocence, of perfection, of the trees, Silmarils, kingdoms, freedoms, lives, loves...though there are victories of "good" over "evil" here and there, the Silmarillion reads to me in sum like a long, slow defeat with periodic respites. A more detailed analysis of this topic might merit a separate thread from this one-word idea. __________________ The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. ~~ Marcus Aurelius

01-28-2007, 09:18 AM	#5
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