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<blockquote data-quote="Holy Bovine" data-source="post: 405849" data-attributes="member: 203">Well, Tolkien was first and foremost a teacher and student of langage.&nbsp; He invented the evlish language and felt he needed a world in which it could have developed.&nbsp; I remember an article on Tolkien where he is quoted as telling his publisher that he didn't feel there would be any market for Lord of the Rings.&nbsp; Tolkien would have been the last person to describe himself as a novelist and I would think that this is the reason so many have trouble reading his works.&nbsp; The Silmarillion may have a great deal of history of Middle Earth but that does not make it a 'good read'.&nbsp;&nbsp; I have countless dry, boring history texts in my library (including the Silmarillion <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ).Tolkien's breadth of vision is what compels me to read and&nbsp; re-read LotR and the Hobbit (and watch the movie 10 times).&nbsp; He paints a grand scale adventure with song and language.&nbsp; That is what makes Tolkien unique.&nbsp; That is what makes me a fan.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Holy Bovine, post: 405849, member: 203"] Well, Tolkien was first and foremost a teacher and student of langage. He invented the evlish language and felt he needed a world in which it could have developed. I remember an article on Tolkien where he is quoted as telling his publisher that he didn't feel there would be any market for Lord of the Rings. Tolkien would have been the last person to describe himself as a novelist and I would think that this is the reason so many have trouble reading his works. The Silmarillion may have a great deal of history of Middle Earth but that does not make it a 'good read'. I have countless dry, boring history texts in my library (including the Silmarillion ;) ). Tolkien's breadth of vision is what compels me to read and re-read LotR and the Hobbit (and watch the movie 10 times). He paints a grand scale adventure with song and language. That is what makes Tolkien unique. That is what makes me a fan. [/QUOTE]

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