Reading Tolkien again…

Well folks, the time has come around again. Time to begin my yearly reading of LOTR.

Am beginning right at the beginning with The Silmarillion this time around.  I figure that I cannot be a true Tolkien aficionado and not be familiar with the history of Middle-Earth.  Plus it drags out the amount of time that I can be reading the thing…

Having got a hundred pages in, I am quite taken with the character Feanor.  He may be the closest thing to an angry elf – tis nice to have some of the blanks filled in, and understand some of the grief that you hear the elves speak of from time to time.

So what of the simarils?  A metaphor for the greed of mankind maybe?  One man made them, but everyone desires them, to the detriment of all.

I’ll go back to my reading now, or at least juggling with a copy of the text that is falling apart…I have two bulldog clips holding the thing together.

Here is a nice post on The Silmarillion from another blog in word press.  (Added 19/3/09)