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SonOfTheMask1 year, 8 months ago

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The Music of the Ainur is a wonderful creation myth. I'm a huge Tolkien fan. I read The Hobbit, then The Lord of the Rings, and then The Silmarillion. To me, that is probably the best order, if you are a younger reader (which I was...started The Hobbit in 3rd grade...LOTR in 4th grade...The Silmarillion in 6th grade).

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  Mdiar1 year, 8 months ago
  
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  I did Hobbit in about fourth grade, LOTR in fifth then I think I went ahead and did Silmarillion in fifth grade as well. All very good books, particularly the Silmarillion. Something about it is wonderful.
  
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  Bkumm1 year, 8 months ago
  
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  It's a great one. I read the Hobbit at 11 and then got into Andre Norton's Witch World series and Robert A. Heinlein's juveniles. I didn't read the Silmarillion until I was about 16. Then, I blasted through the Lord of the Rings. It's the only Fantasy I'll read, although I did read Terry Brooks' Shannara trilogy (the initial one). His is a little different but just on the other end. Tolkien's work is the history of the world before the world was bent and Brooks's work is the future history after the catastrophe of nuclear war.
  Tolkien made and then broke the mold for Fantasy.
  
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    Mdiar1 year, 8 months ago
    
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    Try checking out Jordan's Wheel of Time if you haven't already. If you pay attention at the beginning you can see that it takes place thousands of years after our time period. It starts with lots of generic Tolkien references then it goes a completely different place with a unique world. Overall its one of the few things I've ever read in fantasy that even approaches Lord of the Rings. I like how the author didn't put in Elves or Orcs or things like that into it and how he explains away the "shadowspawn" of the world as genetically created at the height of human civilization 3000 years before the world was thrown into a massive dark age (alot of the magic in the series is derived from this time period, its science in alot of ways).
    
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      Bkumm1 year, 8 months ago
      
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      I'll check it out.
      
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