> Thanks. The first time I read the Silmarillion, it took me a long, long time, and I did find parts of it hard to get through.

Word to that. I can never keep straight all the names of characters after around page 150 or so.

> BTW, I have a question: that game that everyone around here besides me was into last year, Angband...doesn't that take place during the Silmarillion? Angband was the name of Morgoth's stronghold during the Silmarillion.

So far as I can tell, Angband the game has no chronological setting within Tolkien's world. For that matter, it isn't serious about portraying Angband as the fortress appears in the Silmarillion, either. It's pretty much a D&D-style hack n'slash game that just happens to borrow characters and items from Tolkien's works.

> Gri "Angband is a much cooler name than Utumno" shny

I guess so, but I really like "Utumno" for some reason.

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