did anyone else find the silmaillion very confusing - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

VanimaEdhel · 09-12-2002, 05:05 PM

Hmmm...funny: I didn't think it was at all confusing. If you, however, approach it how you approach the Bible (okay: how I, a non-Christian, approached the Bible when I went to read it), then you can understand it...and: if you are tired, don't even TRY. You end up getting all frustrated and throwing the book across your room. You have to approach it with an open, alert mind. And keep your finger in the index of names and the map...that also helps...

09-12-2002, 05:05 PM	#23
VanimaEdhel Etheral Enchantress Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Wellesley College! Posts: 1,461	Hmmm...funny: I didn't think it was at all confusing. If you, however, approach it how you approach the Bible (okay: how I, a non-Christian, approached the Bible when I went to read it), then you can understand it...and: if you are tired, don't even TRY. You end up getting all frustrated and throwing the book across your room. You have to approach it with an open, alert mind. And keep your finger in the index of names and the map...that also helps... __________________ "I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can be together all the time." - Hobbes of Calvin and Hobbes