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That across the sea are a bunch of powerful angels that can beat morgoth whenever they feel like makes everything feel so unimportant. All the wars the elves wage against morgoth you know are pointless. It’s all just waiting for Tulkas to come and wrestle morgoth into submission. Same with sauron. Knowing that sauron is only able to threaten middle earth because he is allowed makes it very uninteresting.

It would have been so much better if the Valar did not exist after the ruin of the trees of valinor. The first age wars would make the the situation of the elves far more bleak knowing that the only hope of victory is if they can overcome morgoth. But knowing that they could just sit around and wait for tulkas makes it very uninteresting. Tolkien is not unfairly criticized when he is said to overuse deus ex machina devices. Even for the most pointless reasons he’s whip out the eagles. Like with fun golfing body who had to be carried away from morgoth.

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You've never read anything spiritual and meaningful until you've read Pic Rel. Its what makes LOTR an even greater masterpiece than the stand-alone trilogy.

Before the bit of preamble, the main question is in the subject.

I like the Lord of the Rings (books) and the movies of them. I also loved The Hobbit (Book) and thought the movies sucked, but I still read The Hobbit each couple years or so since it's a fun shot, fun, fantasy road-trip story.
Is the Silmarillion worth a read, or is it a bunch of lore-dumping to add mostly-unimportant details with no storyline of its own to be engaged in?

Unrelated, fuck these new caphtchas? What happened to picking images with cars in them? Maybe they want people to be members to avoid it, which is a solid tactic.

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Reading it again atm.