Reviews tagging 'Child death'

The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

9 reviews

bone_dry's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional inspiring slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Violence, and War

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Genocide, Suicide, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, and Murder

Minor: Animal cruelty, Child death, Confinement, Incest, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Xenophobia, Kidnapping, Stalking, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

jakepasseri's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

While the prose can be almost biblical and dense, leading to a tough reading experience initially, push past it and youll genuinely find both some of the greatest writing and stories written. Truly a masterpiece

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Murder, and War

Moderate: Suicide, Torture, and Death of parent

Minor: Child death, Incest, Slavery, and Fire/Fire injury

judassilver's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexism, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and War

Moderate: Animal death, Confinement, Incest, Racism, Slavery, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation

Minor: Child death, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment

pejms's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, War, and Classism

Moderate: Child death, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation

Minor: Emotional abuse, Incest, Suicide, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Murder, Toxic friendship, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

This recounts the history of an entire fantasy world, and all the hardships that its people go through. There is a lot that happens, a whole lot.

aisabel's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, and War

Moderate: Child death, Confinement, Genocide, Incest, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Kidnapping, Grief, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Incest, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Blood, Kidnapping, Stalking, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Colonisation

darkefyres's review against another edition

challenging dark tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Murder

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Child death, Sexual assault, and Pregnancy

chickentenderness's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

My forever fave. Grief is ever present but hope is eternal. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Incest, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail

erynlasbelin's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Genocide, Incest, Physical abuse, Slavery, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Blood, Trafficking, Grief, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Gore, Toxic relationship, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Animal death, Bullying, Child death, Dementia, and Pregnancy

novelyon's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark informative mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

idk if the gods trapped MY boyfriend outside the world i'd ruin their day too. sauron did nothing wrong...besides getting into a toxic relationship 😔

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Incest, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Kidnapping, and Murder

Minor: Child death, Confinement, Rape, Slavery, and Pregnancy