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spoltz
Posted 2015-03-17 10:19 AM (#9906 - in reply to #9169)
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Location: Beaverton, Oregon, USA		Finished The Silmarillion. I loved it. It was a lot less daunting than I thought it'd be. I had some help though. A friend on WWE suggested tolkienprofessor.com. So I listened to the Silmarillion lectures from an undergraduate survey of Tolkien class and it helped a lot. I also found it easier to read by getting into a mode as if I was reading something like the Bible. This helped me not fight the narrative style and ease me through it. The last resource I had was the Atlas of Middle-Earth by Karen Wynn Fonstad from the library. It helped keep the travels and battles a little more clear in my head.

Next a few books for other challenges, then I think I'm on to The Tolkien Reader, which is actually a compilation of The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son, On Fairy-Stories, Leaf by Niggle, Farmer Giles of Ham, and The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, which I've owned since the 90s, but never completely read. I'll either add this to the WWE database or just mark the books already in this database that have these works.

I hope everyone is doing well and having a good time with their reading challenges!

Edited by spoltz 2015-03-17 10:22 AM

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