Bulls4Champs wrote:
Have you guys read The Silmarrilion? Any good, I like LOTR and The Hobbit, but haven't really delved any further.
Delve, do you get it? Like the Dwarf miners?
If you want to understand more about the wider history behind the LOTR it is essential reading. It is actually a collection of several separate works, which together help make much of the historical background to LOTR clear.
It covers the first and second ages, and to be honest is mostly one long tale of how in the first age Morgoth gradually destroys all the realms of elves and men in Middle Earth, one by one and so can be a bit depressing. Till in the end, when all looks finally lost, Earendil secures salvation from the West and Morgoth is cast out forever. Earendil's sons were Elrond and Elros, btw and from Elros ultimately came Isildur and Aragorn.
And then Sauron, Morgoth's lieutenant, does it all again in the second age, till he too gets cast down by Isildur. But, as Arnie said, "I'll be back..."
Sounds a bit like the Bulls, in fact!
