So I would have been just a few days shy of 17 when The Silmarillion came out. I bought it in hardback -- a book I still have, although I now also have a paperback of the second edition. When I first read it, it was pretty much completely opaque to me. Your comments about younger people who grew up with it really clicks with me. It was reading comments about it on rec.arts.sf.written by younger folks who had absorbed the mythology from day one that opened my eyes to what it was doing. I still don't care for the Ainulindalë or Valaquenta, but I love the Quenta Silmarillion.
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Date: 2007-09-16 06:48 pm (UTC)