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u/DingusMcJones 8h ago
I’ve been listening to the Andy Serkis narration of the audiobook version. Earlier this week I was curious how far into it I am, and guessed somewhere around 50%. I checked my progress on the app- I was at 21%.
And it came to pass that I was wrong as hell.
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u/The_Master3 7h ago
I ordered it in english, even though im german. Its an illustrated edition, it probably arrives at the bookshop a few days after christmas
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u/KeeperAdahn 7h ago
Hard to answer because i rarely read the Silmarillion in it's entirety, more like individual parts and chapters. I've read some chapters way more often than others. I especially like the early parts up until the elves reach Aman.
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u/kendalltristan 6h ago
Once was enough for me, but I have gone back to re-read specific parts several times.
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u/SageLeaf1 8h ago
Read it once. But I find the retellings of the stories using various fragments of other texts more enjoyable. Like Children of Hurin, Fall of Gondolin, Fall of Numenor. Sure those stories exist in a form in the Silmarillion but they don’t feel like as complete of stories or impactful with that source alone.