Some Cool Things

It's certainly been awhile since I last updated this blog. Almost a month, in fact. Last time I told you all how I had finished the outline for my novel; now I can tell you that it has been minorly revised and I've actually started to write the thing! It's pretty exciting, to tell the truth, and it's coming along rather nicely.

As to other things I've been doing, there isn't a whole lot to tell. Except for one thing. It's something I never actually expected to do (at least not for quite some time), but which came upon me suddenly and I found I couldn't stop.

I've read the entirety of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Silmarillion.

Yep; the whole thing. The giant mythology that he had been working on his whole life and never really finished (his son, Christopher, had to edit and finesse it for publication). The full history that informs the more well-known The Lord of The Rings. It actually is incredible, seeing how Middle-earth began and how all the elements that go into the more widely-read story came to be. It really puts TLotR into the proper context, so that you can fully appreciate that it's really a story about the end of the Age of the Elves and the beginning of the Dominion of Men. If you're a fan of Tolkien's work, but haven't yet read The Silmarillion, you owe it to yourself to do so. Seriously.

Be seeing you,
Steven