Tolkien's new book

Originally posted by Palynka
I don't speak Elfish.

Are you talking about Sindarin or Quenya, or both?

Originally posted by Nordlys
It was not a word association, it was a grammar lesson.

What's the difference?

Originally posted by Nordlys
Are you talking about Sindarin or Quenya, or both?

Sindarin. Quenya's dead, right?

Originally posted by Palynka
Sindarin. Quenya's dead, right?

As dead as Latin. There are still people who speak Latin.

Originally posted by Nordlys
As dead as Latin. There are still people who speak Latin.

I call them Zombini.

Originally posted by Nordlys
As dead as Latin. There are still people who speak Latin.

That's right. They're called 'gasbags'.

Originally posted by Palynka
I call them Zombini.

3/10

Originally posted by darvlay
That's right. They're called 'gasbags'.

7.5/10

Originally posted by darvlay
7.5/10

I call that a fraud.

Originally posted by Palynka
I call that a fraud.

8/10

Originally posted by darvlay
8/10

You've been watching figure skating for too long.

Originally posted by Palynka
http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/books/09/18/books.newtolkien.ap/index.html

Anyone excited about it?

That would be the wrong word.

Christopher Tolkien--I feel anguished thinking about him.

Originally posted by Palynka
http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/books/09/18/books.newtolkien.ap/index.html

Anyone excited about it?

I dont know if excited is the word but yes I am interested in reading it.... but then I am slowly becoming a Tolkien geek.

As a side note to any other Tolkien geeks out there:

Has anyone here ever read The Silmarillion? I have heard a lot about it (both good and bad) and would like to know others opinions of it before I decide if I should purchase a copy or not.

Originally posted by MCA
Has anyone here ever read The Silmarillion? I have heard a lot about it (both good and bad) and would like to know others opinions of it before I decide if I should purchase a copy or not.

If you read the appendices to the Lord of the Rings and wanted more, you are probably lost enough to fork out for a paperback Silmarillion.

Originally posted by MCA
As a side note to any other Tolkien geeks out there:

Has anyone here ever read The Silmarillion? I have heard a lot about it (both good and bad) and would like to know others opinions of it before I decide if I should purchase a copy or not.

I found parts of it longwinded and boring, but it's absolutely worth reading and gives you a lot more background for the Lord of the Rings. And I love the beginning, "Ainulindale", where the Ainu create the world by singing.

My parents have a heavy hardcover edition of it (in German), and when I was 13 and at the peak of my Tolkien obsession, I carried it with me on a hiking tour so that I could read it at the top of a mountain. Everybody thought I was crazy. They were probably right.