Yes, there's a
chapter-by-chapter discussion of LotR going on right now, so I suggest that we save the
Silmarillion for later. Anyone is welcome to read it at anytime, of course, but to get as many people involved in the discussion as possible, we shouldn't have more than one at a time going on.
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth..
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