have you ever read the silmarillion?
i´m not sure if i should buy it or not.
Perhaps you can give me a tipp.
Never managed to get past the first few pages with that.
From what I remember it goes something like this:
There was someone called X (X is the hero), who was also known as Y by the dwarfs and Z by the Elves (OK, X == Z now, I can remember that) but whose real name was W (Sorry X == W). Y went on a big quest (Yay! The plot!) and then came back victorious (Oh ...) and later died. (So
X,
Z, W otherwise referred to as Y is not the hero?). But his son called A, who is known by the dwarfs as ....