Tolkien testosterone

[aldrea279]

Frankie:
> Technically, the Silmarillion was published posthumously. It really 
> was JRT's dictionary rather than an actual *story* for mass        
> consumption.

Well, I know it wasn't published in actual story style.  But I never 
thought it was JRRT's dictionary(The Appendixes in RotK seemed more 
like a dictionary).  I figured(and didn't the foreward in the 
beginning say this?) it was his actual notes on the story of the 
elves that Christopher Tolkien had gathered and put together.  And I 
guess the notes were just the basic story, no real Bang or flavor to 
be found in them- which is why the thing is just so darned boring 
half the time.  But it still has some good stories. =P

~Aldrea, who wishes she had some Martin Shaw tapes like Kathryn to 
cure her insomnia...