Linda ~ they got the mustard out! ~’s Reviews > The Silmarillion > Status Update

I'm not in the headspace right now to deal with Túrin Turambar. It's either pause there indefinitely or skip ahead. I chose to skip. Túrin's tale in summary: everything sucked, and then they died. Just your average Greek tragedy. 🙈

I don't think I could name another story where a character so clearly sees the enemy for what it is and yet still falls prey to its machinations because he's such a hot-headed dingbat and ends up doing far more destruction as a result. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Now this is the performance I expected from Serkis.

I'm listening at 1.40x speed though. 🙈

FËANOR! 🤬

Ok, so he hasn't done anything yet, other than give his mom permanent post-partum depression. But every time I see his name, I want to wring his neck until his head pops off and then use it as a bowling ball.

I'm really worried I'm going to forget how to pronounce Ilúvatar before the end of this book. He keeps putting the stress on the first "a" instead of the "u". And I've sped this up to 1.35x and he's still too slow. I wasn't expecting this from Serkis. 🙈

How do you have accent marks and still put the stress the wrong syllable?