Reading & Explaining The Silmarillion - Part 2 (Reupload)

[@newlightforgod]

Dude this is sooo good. I was dreading reading the book. I love the lore but people did say it was a hard read. You make it sooo much better.

[@wowreallyOT7]

You are making it possible! "thank you", just doesn't express the immense gratitude i have for you sharing. If your listeners are able to fully understand and experience a similar bond to the one you have with these writings, what more could you ask for...well done!

[@ThePareidolian]

Why did you skip from Ainulindalë to Of the Beginning of Days? Do you just not like the Valaquenta?

[@ONCEFORVER12]

Thank you so much for making this! It’s such a wonderful series and you explain things so well :D

[@PhillipLarge-op2xh]

I have tried and failed the silmarillion a few times. I decided to give the book one last time and I found your videos to help. Thank you very much :)

[@ericjohnson9838]

Once again! Awesome, didn't know how much I needed this

[@djohnston6856]

More and more I feel like the silmarillion is a story to be told or heard and not necessarily just to be read. I love how some KZbin synopsis online come out like a story teller repeating in their own words. It feels congruent with how Britonic Anglo-Saxon histories and tales might have experienced.

[@jenmeridius5239]

Thank you again for this. You have a perfect reading voice and I’m learning so much.

[@lizzhenkel110]

I’m so happy I got to meet Meow-Ron

[@Clairerickson]

Found you on TikTok!! Love this, thanks so much!

[@jaydenogden]

This is absolutely brilliant

[@joelbrooks3793]

Hey Don, Loving this many months after the original recording, question; did you skip a chapter between part 1 and 2?

[@Kaids-comics]

Yes he did he skipped the valequenta witch all it really does is give names powers and uses for all valor the names of some miar the belrogs ect

[@stephaniereynolds702]

See to me the many names gives it an air of realness because people of different tongues would have different names for things it adds depth

[@GavrielAbrahams]

I'm listening with my 4y and on the previous video, when you said "goodbye" he replied "Bye-bye" 🥰

[@johnnyboi8769]

Is this unabridged?

[@lizzhenkel110]

I’m starting to want to roll play yovanna but how

[@sconemistress4289]

I giggled when you said Manwe as a Santa Claus like figure…..since the valor are very similar to Norse gods and Santa claus and his 8 reindeer is derived from Odin and his 8 legged horse slepnir.

[@Da_Pinchi]

22:36 (my book mark)

[@ngrt3481]

Tulkas kinda sounds like Thor from Norse mythology to me. Especially in the Prymlur saga. (You should check that one out if you haven't already, it is very funny!!)

[@corysnively7475]

I’ve always kind of compared the Valar to the Roman or Greek pantheon, not quite all-powerful but still that kind of dynamic as a group and the personality of different ones. Plus Tolkien loved ancient mythology as a boy and I’m sure this impacted his own mythology.

[@Karen-cc4wr]

Can you read lord of the rings next?!