Pages in category characters in the silmarillion the following 200 pages are in this category, out of 215 total. The silmarillion is actually tolkiens first book and also his last. Word count estimates are not guaranteed to be accurate. The silmarillion is a collection of mythopoeic works by english writer j. I remember two decades ago or more, hard to remember now i read the lord of the rings and the hobbit and loved them all. I read the ebook version out of curiosityresearch, and given the length, im surprised by how fast i read it. While anything over 40,000 words can fall into the novel category, 50,000 is considered the minimum novel length.
I have read the hobbit and the lotr, but i am busy with other books right now. Theres a lot of stuff here i didnt understand very well. Dawn felagund is the founder and owner of the silmarillion writers guild and has written about one hundred stories, poems, and essays about j. Once signed in, youll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox. It shows us the ancient history to which characters in the lord of the rings look back, talk, rhyme and sing about. Everything you need to know about word count and book length for books and novels and memoirs and childrens novels and picture books. In origin it precedes even the hobbit, and is the story of the first age of tolkiens middle earth. However, tolkien never completed the book of lost tales. It was said that the fate of arda was woven about the silmarils. It also can remove all the repetitions from the text. Tolkiens masterpiece is truly unlike any other book you will ever read. Since i am quite the evangelist for the silmarillion, over the years i have formulated quite a bit of advice for firsttime readers. Its written in a very different style from his more famous works and i think a lot of people are put off by that.
The word count of the silmarillion is just over k words, but i wouldnt worry too much about that. The silmarillion is perhaps the most unique and difficulttoexplain book i have read. It begins five hundred years before the action of the book, when morgoth, a vala and the prime evil power, escapes from the blessed realm of valinor to the northwest of middleearth. What is a reasonable estimate for the minimum length, in word count, for a nonfiction book. If youre asking this because youre wondering how long it is, i would tell you that if you worry about its length, youll never get through it. Silmarillion and avengers crossover fanfiction archive with over 8 stories. How long did it take you to complete the silmarillion. Dawn is a graduate student in the humanities, and her academic work on tolkiens cosmogony and the tolkien fan.
Should i read the silmarillion before or after reading the. Tolkien this study guide consists of approximately 51 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of the silmarillion. Great performance as well, but one thing that did start to get a bit annoying was the frequency of audio glitches throughout. The hobbit has more unique words and a higher unique word density than both the silmarillion and each volume in the lord of the rings. The first complete version of the silmarillion was the sketch of the mythology written in 1926 later published in volume iv of the history of middleearth. The calculator below gives the number of words in a text, number of unique words total number of words minus all word repetirions.
Because of that very uniqueness, however, many are baffled by it. Is the silmarillion actually a good book or is it one of. Id guesstimate that nonfiction books generally yes, this is very rough run perhaps 150450 pages, and at about 350 wdpage that works out to something like 50150k words. Though unfinished tales cannot be read as a book in its own right, any one who comes to it after reading the lord of the rings and the silmarillion will indubitably find it interesting, as the book gives various nuggets of information about characters, events and places that are only hinted at in the other two books. How to read the silmarillion and why observation deck. Great way to read the silmarillion as the book itself can be a bit impregnable to read. The best way to find out how many pages will be in your book is to use this calculation method. This work served as the model for tolkiens last full version of the history, which he composed in the mid to late 1930s. The silmarillion audiobook j r r tolkien part 1 2 duration. Im curious regarding word counts for the original books in anne rices vampire series. Come in to read stories and fanfics that span multiple fandoms in the silmarillion universe.
This character sheet incorporates some information from unfinished talesof numenor and middleearth, the history of middle earth, and the children of hurin. The silmarillion, now published four years after the death of its author, is an account of the elder days, or the first age of the world. In the lord of the rings were narrated the great events at the end of the third age. Is the silmarillion actually a good book or is it one of those things that only big tolkien fantasy fans like. Should i read the silmarillion before or after reading the lord of the rings. Tour in october to promote the silmarillion about the book revised and expanded to include twentysix breathtaking new fullcolor paintings fortyeight paintings in all by renowned tolkien artist ted nasmith, houghton mifflins new illustrated edition of the silmarillion is the most stunning ever published. Chapter intro music playing randomly mid chapterthe chapter title repeatedly being said over the top of the narrator.
A full, book length form of the silmarillion existed by the early 1930s. Conflicts between these works and the silmarillion are noted where they occur see also the character sheet for the lord of the rings and the hobbit, which are set in the same universe and, indeed, features some of the same characters. The silmarillion writers guildan online community for. If you are an author of a book or know of a book s accurate wordcount, contact me. Tolkien, del rey books, 1987 bracketed etym roots in bold small type refer to listing in the silmarillion, appendix, j. I was scared that agents would reject my book simply because i had got the length wrong. Yet some things there are that they cannot see, neither alone nor taking counsel together.
There are plenty of books that purposefully play with the word counts of their chapters. Quotes from the silmarillion sauron was become now a sorcerer of dreadful power, master of shadows and of phantoms, foul in wisdom, cruel in strength, misshaping what he touched, twisting what he ruled, lord of werewolves. Before you decide your average chapter length, its a good idea to think about the purpose behind dividing a book into chapters. Since just comparing the number of unique words in a book does not take its length into account i decided to calculate the percentage of unique words of the whole text. The lord of the ring ranks with war and peace, the count of monte cristo and gone with the wind as the butt of jokes for its length.
It is the ancient drama to which the characters in the lord of the rings look back, and in whose. The calculator counts number of unique words in a given text. Come in to read stories and fanfics that span multiple fandoms in the silmarillion and avengers universe. Read our guide to learn what your word count should be and our editors tips for sticking to. The history and descent of the main characters are given as the leading paragraphs of the book, and the back story is elaborated upon in the silmarillion. R tolkiens the silmarillion the silmarillion is an account of the elder days, of the first age of tolkiens world.
They were among the most prized of all the wonders crafted by the elves and were coveted by many. Tolkien never scoped the silmarillion to a single book length or even trilogy length story, and and left a legacy of a jumbled mess of versions of what happened before the hobbit. But while the length of a novel is to a large extent up to its writer, lengths may also vary by subgenre. The forerunner to the lord of the rings, the silmarillion fills in the background which lies behind the more popular work, and gives the earlier history of middleearth, introducing some of the key characters the silmarillion is an account of the elder days, of the first age of tolkiens world.
The silmarillion by tolkien, first edition abebooks. The silmarillion quotes showing 6190 of 146 a cloak of darkness she wove about them when melkor and ungoliant set forth. Tolkien, it is the story of the creation of the world and of the first age, this is the ancient drama to which the characters in the lord of the rings look back and in whose events some of them, such as elrond and galadriel, took part. Tolkien and christopher tolkien, houghton mifflin company, 1977 bracketed appx words of the languages of the rohirrim, hobbits and common speech are traced to possible roots in the. The tales of the silmarillion are set in an age when morgoth, the first dark. Ive heard it has taken people anywhere from a week or two to a couple of years. Tolkiens the silmarillion, some of which have been translated and published in fan magazines around the world. It is among the books i love the most, but this might not be the case if i had not read it in a bizarre way that i can hardly recommend to anyone else, and yet may be the best way to read it. For the uninitiated, the silmarillion is a history book of tolkiens middleearth, the land in which the hobbit and the lord of the rings take place as well as many other works by tolkien, most of them unfinished. As with everything else when it comes to writing a book, these are only guidelinesnot rules. Silmarillion crossover fanfiction archive with over 327 stories. Though the average word count of a chapter is around 2,000 5,000 words, it all depends on your story.
Tolkiens silmarillion is the prequel to the lord of the rings trilogy and is an extremely well written novel, with his language painting a vivid picture in the mind of a brand new world with. From his fortress of angband he endeavours to gain control. This is somewhat tricky, because there are a lot of characters in the silmarillion, which essentially tells the entire history of middle earth, from its creation through to the events of the lord. Reading length is a participant in the amazon services llc associates program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to and affiliated sites.
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