The Silmarillion

This was a lot more engaging and readable than I remembered or expected. I guess the last time I tried to read it, I was too young for it (I was probably a teenager). Anyway I was prepared to slog through it, and I guess it did take me a YEAR because I would read one of the sections and then go read something else, but I am glad I finally read this, and I have a lot of Tolkien nerd thoughts about it.

Misc (I may add more later):

* Turin and Beleg: Tragic, epic, extremely gay love story which someone should 100% make into a movie
* “Doomed to die” - Mortals were gifted with the “doom”, i.e. fate, of mortality. I always read this line as the nine rings killed the Ringwraiths, but rather, “mortal men doomed to die” is a description of the race of Men (and what sets them apart from the Elves); Sauron in fact tempted the Ringwraiths by saying they WOULDN'T die, and with the rings, they did not – they wasted away until they became wraiths and thralls of Sauron