Ava’s Reviews > The Silmarillion > Status Update

"among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that come down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the shadow of death light that endures." literally shoot me dead. insane opening sentence

i dont understand like half of the things going on but that is okay ❤️ the prose is so gorgeous i wish i could be a pretty elf sleeping under silver stars and have long white hair but instead i am just some guy cursed by the autism wizard

difficult to read for sure--doesn't read like a story, but rather an anthology, which makes sense given it's basically the in-universe bible. the tolkienisms are still very present though--i love the idea that middle-earth came to be through music and art. i'm sure the more times you reread it the richer it becomes, though it is quite the challenge to initially get into it. loving morgoth though love a goth king