{"id":41027,"date":"2014-02-09T22:07:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T05:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/09\/silmarillion-envisioned.html"},"modified":"2014-02-10T11:14:23","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T18:14:23","slug":"silmarillion-envisioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/09\/silmarillion-envisioned.html","title":{"rendered":"Silmarillion envisioned"},"content":{"rendered":"
A neat project by Andrew Diaz of "Dresden Codak" fame. Having just finished The Silmarillion,<\/i> I appreciate his vision (even where I don't neccessarily agree with it). \u00a0I'm not sanguine about an HBO series, but I'd definitely go for an illustrated version of the book.\ufeff<\/div>\n

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The Silmarillion Project<\/a>
\n Every chapter of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Silmarillion, as illustrated by Dresden Codak author Aaron Diaz\n <\/p>\n

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A neat project by Andrew Diaz of "Dresden Codak" fame. Having just finished The Silmarillion, I appreciate his vision (even where I don't neccessarily agree with it). \u00a0I'm not sanguine about an HBO series, but I'd definitely go for an illustrated version of the book.\ufeff The Silmarillion Project Every chapter of J.R.R. 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