Summary - Silmarillion, Elvish Murder Porn (Silmarillion/Lord of the Rings Analysis)

This book is an unauthorized summary and literary criticism of the plot and characters of J.R.R. Tolkien's almost-novel "The Silmarillion", with a detailed chapter by chapter analysis. It is written humorously, but covers a lot of serious topics.Most people who think of The Silmarillion, if they think of it at all, think of it as an uncompleted work of J.R.R. Tolkien, written in pieces many years before the Lord of the Rings but never finished. It reads like a historical appendix with thick, descriptive paragraphs and relatively little dialogue.But what is it really? If you dig into it, The Silmarillion is really ELVISH MURDER PORN. It's the story of the suffering, torture, and murder of large numbers of elves, and, sometimes for a little variety, the suffering, torture, and murder of large numbers of men. You may think it's just a fairy tale, and that's how fairy tales are written. But in most fairy tales the good guys aren't slaughtered over and over. In most fairy tales nearly all the main characters do not die in spectacularly horrible deaths, which is what the Silmarillion is all about. Tolkien creates big, extended families of elves and describes how each one dies, usually in combination with humiliation and/or betrayal and/or immense frustration. I have to wonder if Tolkien conceived this as elvish murder porn, that is, entertainment for people who love to read about the suffering and death of elves, and this analysis will go through the book step by step and explore the unusual nature of it.