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padib said:

Binged Cobra Kai seasons 3-5 last week, was awesome. Best thing I've watched in a long time, and some stuff is so bad it's good type of thing. Other stuff is just awesome.

Up to date on House of the Dragon, but need to watch Ep. 6 tomorrow, waiting for my watch partner.

Started The Expanse yesterday, will check with a friend if he wants to be my watch partner, otherwise will watch it alone in the coming weeks.

Watched netflix series Dated and Related S1, another dating Netflix series similar to Too Hot to Handle. Thoroughly enjoyed it, funny, fun, hot and good competition design.

Watched film Everything everywhere all at once on Amazon Prime, was greatly surprised. It was great.

Listening to The Silmarillion again, trying to get past volume II this time.

Probably my favourite books of all time, in fact, I’m currently finishing it up. I just read the Voyage of Eärendil, and am a few pages into Akallabêth—a recount of the establishment of the Edain, how the Valar created Numenor, and the early trade with the Elves of Middle Earth and those of Tol Erresëa.

A fair warning, I don’t think the Silmarillion lends itself well to audiobook. It’s not really a novel so much of a collection of various types of creative narratives that chain together to tell the story of the first age of middle earth. It’s mainly told from a distant perspective with a birds eye view of the unfolding stories and is dense in its content—the book is quite a bit shorter than Lord of the Rings, but the story is far larger. There’s a lot of terminology from various fictional languages, place locations, family trees, and an extensive cast of characters. It’s expected that the readers are frequently looking at the glossary index and maps as they read. The first few times I read it, I was often flipping back and forth through the book.

Certainly, The Silmarillion is not for everyone, even among the Tolkien fandom.

But, if you do like The Silmarillion, there is an “extended” version called The History of Middle Earth. Not so much extended, but different versions of the Silmarillion, some of them poetic, others prose, and lots of footnotes.