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mrsjtosh 's review for:
The Silmarillion
by J.R.R. Tolkien
It has been a while since I have read anything by Tolkien, but as usual he never disappoints.
From the first page of the book he weaved his magic and I was once again transported to Middle Earth. He has such a gift for writing and storytelling you feel like you are there living and breathing the story. No wonder the man is a legend, his imagination knows no bounds from the poetic location names to the wealth and personalities of the characters, especially in this version as I listened to the audiobook my mind was conjuring up all sorts of colourful images. I guess it help having read previous books in the Middle Earth Universe collection, lots of the place names and characters were familiar to me.
No-one writes elves, goblins or dwarfs quite as well this man.
The Silmarillion takes us back to the beginning, it is almost like the blu print to all the other books. It paints a picture of Middle Earth in its entirety and explains how some of the things in other books "come to pass" (one of my favourite Tolkien expressions).
A must read for all fans of his work. Listening to the audiobook version was like listening to a spell being cast, absolutely memorising.
From the first page of the book he weaved his magic and I was once again transported to Middle Earth. He has such a gift for writing and storytelling you feel like you are there living and breathing the story. No wonder the man is a legend, his imagination knows no bounds from the poetic location names to the wealth and personalities of the characters, especially in this version as I listened to the audiobook my mind was conjuring up all sorts of colourful images. I guess it help having read previous books in the Middle Earth Universe collection, lots of the place names and characters were familiar to me.
No-one writes elves, goblins or dwarfs quite as well this man.
The Silmarillion takes us back to the beginning, it is almost like the blu print to all the other books. It paints a picture of Middle Earth in its entirety and explains how some of the things in other books "come to pass" (one of my favourite Tolkien expressions).
A must read for all fans of his work. Listening to the audiobook version was like listening to a spell being cast, absolutely memorising.