Board Thread:Lore/@comment-26063164-20150331225158/@comment-25975584-20150401021530

Thorin Stonehelm wrote: the silmarrilion is the tale that binds together the entire history of middle earth, it tells the story of most myths from the elder days and informs of Sauron's origins unlike Lotr though it is about the elves mainly and not men dwarves or hobbits. it talks about the events of the first age and also identifies each of the valar and the realm their powers control. and it speaks of the first dark lord Melkor who was worse even than sauron. Not only that it contains the creation myth of ME.

but you are right 50.36.73.103 it is near impossible to sumarize the silmarillion however a dictionary is not necessary unless you are reading the books of lost tales which go into even more detail than the silmarillion.

i would also suggest reading the children of hurin The lost tales is worse than the Children of Hurin and the Silmarrilion ''combined. ''I read it but it took a month. Mind you, I read all of Harry Potter in 2 months.