Tolkien testosterone

[vulgarweed]

> 
> 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...

I'm actually really enjoying The Silmarillion for the first time - I 
think I'll finish it this time. I think the first times I tried to 
read it, I hadn't read enough actual epics in my lifetime and was not 
inured to the nodoff factor. Now that I've gotten around to really 
reading more than my teenage self ever dream of Beowulf, the Epic of 
Gilgamesh, the Bible, the Kalevala, etc., the style makes more sense 
to me. I still wish it was broken up with a little more novelistic 
stuff, but it's OK. Morgoth is still sufficiently riveting. :)

Lots of badass women, too, like Haldeth and, yes, Galadriel. And 
Luthien was no cream puff.

AV