Well, the Silm isn't of course as neatly ordered as the Hobbit and LotR, but it does get easier to understand as soon as you get all the Men, Elves, places, Valar, and so on and so forth figured out. Unfinished Tales is quite confusing too. I get Huo, Tuor, Hurin, and Turin mixed up still sometimes, but it gets easier. Hurin son of Huor, Turin son of Tuor, Hurin went to Gondolin after Easterlings took his home, and Turin became an outlaw after living with the Gray Elves, not to mention Turin married his youngest sister whom he'd never met, and his older sister that he'd known died of the Great Plague that struck Middle-earth in the Third Age. (Or was it Second?) I still get the dates mixed up, lol.
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"What shall we do, what shall we do!" he cried. "Escaping goblins to be caught be wolves!"
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