Silmarillion

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Silmarillion is a recurring book in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between April 19, 2023 and February 03, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “named my house and business after Silmarillion references”; “I’ve read this Silmarillion chapter”. It most often appears alongside Aiman Al-Mudaifer, Amazon, Amazon.

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  • Category: Books
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: April 19, 2023
  • Last seen: February 03, 2025

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

April 19, 2023 · Original source
Is this bad? I don’t want to say you should never build identity around liking a thing. Most non-enlightened people want to have some distinguishing characteristic, and anything you do - care about a hobby, or a skill, or a political cause - is going to feel kind of cringe. Caring about a piece of art seems no worse than anything else. I personally named my house and business after Silmarillion references - I would have named my car after one, but I learned my friend had named her car after it first, and that Steven Colbert had also named his car after it, and it would be weird to have all these cars named “Vingilótë” driving around. At this point I backed off.
February 03, 2025 · Original source
And UTAMO (hey, I’ve read this Silmarillion chapter!):