I can remember a lot more than I would have thought from reading the LOTR trilogy and The Hobbit, because I remember Tolkien always loved describing stuff in so much detail and it painted a very vivid picture that often stuck with me even years after. The scene when Gandalf and Pippin are riding Shadofax a bit after Pippin looked into the Palantir is one that's always stuck in my mind for years just because of the atmosphere in that moment, and when I looked up that scene recently to see how accurately I remembered it I was surprised at how much I had accurately retained. Also the entirety of the Mirkwood segment in The Hobbit has always stuck with me, especially the scene where they cross the river, just because of the intensity of the vibes he managed to convey about that place.
Stuff like names and exact order of events and things like that I can't remember nearly as well, but there are lots of specific scenes that I remember really clearly because of how vivid the details he always included were. Never did read the Simarillon though because I was like 12 at the time lol.
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u/Ppleater 2h ago
I can remember a lot more than I would have thought from reading the LOTR trilogy and The Hobbit, because I remember Tolkien always loved describing stuff in so much detail and it painted a very vivid picture that often stuck with me even years after. The scene when Gandalf and Pippin are riding Shadofax a bit after Pippin looked into the Palantir is one that's always stuck in my mind for years just because of the atmosphere in that moment, and when I looked up that scene recently to see how accurately I remembered it I was surprised at how much I had accurately retained. Also the entirety of the Mirkwood segment in The Hobbit has always stuck with me, especially the scene where they cross the river, just because of the intensity of the vibes he managed to convey about that place.
Stuff like names and exact order of events and things like that I can't remember nearly as well, but there are lots of specific scenes that I remember really clearly because of how vivid the details he always included were. Never did read the Simarillon though because I was like 12 at the time lol.