The Silmarillion Essay

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The Silmarillion by J.R.R Tolkien, this is the book I would save If I could only save one. I choose The Silmarillion to save because of a few key reasons. If every single book was gone our generation of small children would not have a education in reading, and those who were already educated to read would eventually die in say, 100 years. In that time period the world would start to become ill-literate and we would be pushed back to the literal capabilities of prehistoric cavemen or worse. Having a book like The Silmarillion could save us all, why you ask? Well this is because the Author of The Silmarillion, J.R.R Tolkien had a vast collection of vocabulary and grammatically advanced works, the most complete being The Silmarillion. The book would teach us grammar and the less renowned art of the old English language, starting from that point it would only take about 50-100 years to regain our full knowledge …show more content…

Written by J.R.R Tolkien in the late 19 century, it really was ahead of its time in concern of theories and plot setup. In the book was a collection or mashup of some of his most famous works split up into Ainulindalë, Valaquenta, Quenta Silmarillion, Akallabêth, and Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age. In these sections there was a presence of some of the most grammatically advanced phrases and substantial use of latin-root words such as abjurare. Having this book would be a dictionary, thesaurus, and a College level English Class all in one. So this book would be a equivalent to a school English education, which would provide enough to reteach our people the correct way to speak from the Old English, Instead of starting from the Pre-homo Sapiens English level, in which they did not have one to speak or to learn from. This book, if used effectively to its full potential, could save us the trouble of having to teach a culture more than a thousand years of very precisely thought out

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