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@3"LORD OF THE RINGS" WAS BAD!
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Personally, the Silmarillion is my favourite of all Tolkien`s books. LOTR was
brilliant, of course, but I found that in the main, it got steadily worse as
it went on (with some exceptions, of course).
The whole business (one or two hundred pages or so) in the middle about
Pippin and Merry was completely boring IMHO, and the bit after Frodo and Sam
split off into Mordor by themselves is also fairly poor.
Don't get me wrong, I love LOTR, but I felt that these two sections in
particular let it down a bit :-(
Also, some of the stories in the Silmarillon are actually a better base
for a story than the One Ring business, which had some serious flaws
in the plot. For instance, Gandalf (and indeed, all the other Istaari
[wizards] are Maiar, as is Sauron himself. Although he is the most
powerful by far, surely if all five worked together they could manage
to teleport Frodo (or anyone else) to Mount Doom and chuck in the ring...
Or, as Gandalf, Elrond, Galadriel etc have the power necessary to control the
Ring, one of them could use it's power against Sauron to allow them to reach
Mount Doom. Ok, the reason against this is that they would be corrupted, and
eventually become as evil as Sauron himself. But surely, people of such
goodness could withstand it for the few minutes it would take? I mean, both
Frodo and Bilbo wore it for longer than that, in Bilbo's case over many
years, although it did start to take hold of him towards the end.
Actually, in his biography, it says that he worked on the Silmarillion ever
since writing The Hobbit, intending it for publication...
However, his publishers wanted to cash in on the success of The Hobbit by
bringing out a sequel ASAP, and he was more or less forced to write LOTR, and
in the beginning, his heart wasn't really in it, and he concentrated more on
The Silmarillion. It's a shame that things turned out as they did. If he
had been allowed to work on The Silmarillion, as he wanted to do from the
beginning, it could have been so much better...
@2Aaron Gunstone