It has been ages since I was last graced by your presence XmESs, I'm glad to see national service has passed without event
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I've heard the Simarillion is like reading a bible. It's dense and full of names that simply don't retain the mind. So I'm not terribly encouraged to check it out, but I probably will sometime or another. It's probably one of those things that should have been read initially, although I doubt I could appreciate it without some groundwork to place it in.
