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The Daily Tolkien articles by various authors	The Tolkien Virgin articles by Mark-Edmond
ARTICLES 01-10	ARTICLES 01-10
ARTICLES 11-20	11) Of the Sindar
ARTICLES 21-30	12) Of the Sun and Moon and the Hiding of Valinor
ARTICLES 31-40	13) Of Men
ARTICLES 41-50	14) Of the Return of the Noldor
51) And Now for the Other Love Story	15) Of Beleriand and its Realms
52) Kryptic Tales of Middle-earth	16) Of the Noldor in Beleriand
53) The People of Eriador in the later Third Age	17) Of Meglin
54) The Wild, Wild, Wood-elf West	18) Of the coming of Men into the West
	19) Of the Ruin of Beleriand and the Fall of Fingolfin
	20) Of Beren and Luthien
	21) Of the Fifth Battle: Nirnaeth Arnoediad

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Your Tolkien Virgin Ping!

Read along with a Tolkien Virgin as he discovers and comments on the history of Middle Earth as he reads it for the first time.  These articles start with The Silmarillion, journeys through The Hobbit, and finishes with the epic Lord Of The Rings.  At the pace of 2 articles per week (Mondays and Fridays) the articles will wrap up about the same time that the final movie of the Lord Of The Rings story is released. 

If anyone would like for me to ping them directly when I post the Tolkien Virgin articles or my Daily Tolkien articles let me know. I hope that you enjoy them!

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didn't Herman Melville write a story earlier this century (or was it last century?) about a man's mad quest for a white whale and how that quest was his ruin?

This century, last century, what's a hundred years matter more or less?

Help me out, all you Silmarillion lovers, what is it about the Silmarillion that draws you to it?

Sometimes grand tragedy can make our own problems seem tiny in comparison.

The next Tolkien Virgin article continues with The Silmarillion: Of Turin Turambar

Oh, boy, if he didn't like the Nirnaeth Arnoediad, the story of Turin Turambar is just gonna sink him.