[Son of Númenor]

I have no clue how I would go about writing a thesis-support analysis of the Silm. I was given the opportunity in grade school, but opted instead to write about Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. In Achebe's book, it was relatively easy to create a thesis pointing to the author's intention in writing the book, supproted with viable evidence in the main character's growth and transformation and in the larger historical context of the book. With the Silm, I always feel it would be trite to do a traditional literary analysis -- in a sense, I have too much respect for J.R.R. Tolkien to posit an overarching thesis, however superficially demonstrable, about the nature of the work or a character therein.