Kendall’s Reviews > The Silmarillion > Status Update

I gave five stars to The Simarillion reluctantly. Most writers' critique groups would have torn it to shreds. It's too long, has too much detail, it fails to keep a unifying theme--well, that's not entirely true, there are the silmarils, but the threads that support them flicker mystifyingly in and out. Its protagonists (and corresponding antagonists) in most cases are limited to a single chapter and can change names