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[Raynor]

Originally Posted by Boromir88

He just stops and leaves The Silmarillion to rest.

I wouldn't agree; he wrote about the Elder Days all the way till 1970, as noted in Late Writings, HoME XII, for example.

So, are you somebody who likes the 'glimpses' we get in LOTR? Is that what makes the story 'magical.' Or are you driven to wanting 'more, more, more' , because of these 'glimpses?' And after reading the Silmarillion, 'going to the untold places, people...etc' did it destroy that magic (for you) that is established in The Lord of the Rings?

Tolkien stated in the On Fairy-stories essay that magic [_in_ the stories] should not be explained away and I guess it can be inferred that too much explanation would also negatively affect the magic _of_ the stories. That being said, I am not satisfied with glimpses