Tolkien books
Mr G
I want to start reading Tolkien books, which books should I read first
and which books should I read following those books? Thanks.
Bruce Hietbrink
> I want to start reading Tolkien books, which books should I read first
> and which books should I read following those books? Thanks.
Hi,
You should read _The Hobbit_ first, and then read _The Lord
of the Rings_. _The Lord of the Rings_ is divided into three
seperate volumes titled (in order) _The Fellowship of the Ring_,
_The Two Towers_ and _Return of the King_. There's other
stuff you'll want to read later, but that's where you should
start.
I'm jealous. It would be great to read these for the first
time again.
Bruce Hietbrink
Marc A. Moniz
Mr G wrote:
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> I want to start reading Tolkien books, which books should I read first
> and which books should I read following those books? Thanks.
(1) The Hobbit
(2) Lord of the Rings
(3) The Silmarillion
(4) Unfinished Tales
Then, if you've become "obsessed" as most of us here, you can move on
to(in no particular order):
(a) The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
(b) The History of Middle-earth series
(c) the biographies
Almost forgot these (also in no particular order):
(a) The Adventures of Tom Bombadil
(b) The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son
(c) Tree and Leaf (On Fairy-Stories & Leaf by Niggle)
(d) Farmer Giles of Ham
(e) Smith of Wootton Major
Enjoy!!!
Nimrath
Helen Steele
Marc A. Moniz wrote:
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> Mr G wrote:
> >
> > I want to start reading Tolkien books, which books should I read first
> > and which books should I read following those books? Thanks.
>
> (1) The Hobbit
> (2) Lord of the Rings
> (3) The Silmarillion
> (4) Unfinished Tales
I would also suggest that if you are interested enough, read the
Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales (and maybe some more of the histories)
and then go back and read the Lord of the Rings again. The extra depth
and insight in LOTR afterwards is amazing. There is all sorts of things
that you simply don't realise the first time around -- for example, I
never realised the irony of Bilbo making up a song about Earindil in the
House of Elrond, until I had read the Sil, and knew the history of
Earindil and his son, Elrond. The LOTR is absolutely stuffed with small
things that only a reading of the Sil can give deeper meaning to.
Happy reading
helen
Helen Steele
Cambridge, UK
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> I want to start reading Tolkien books, which books should I read first
> and which books should I read following those books? Thanks.
>
I'll tell you the way I went about it because it worked out well for me.
1)The Hobbit
2)The Lord of the Ring
3)The Silmarillion
4)The Unfinished Tales
5)If you really get into it you can start reading all the writings of
Tolkien being put out by his son, the first two of which are called The
Lost Tales.
I'd also recommend Tolkien: The Illustrated Encyclopedia by David Day and
The Atlas of Middle-earth by Karen Wynn-Fonstad. These werwe both
invaluable to me in keeping track of the complexities of Tolkiens work.
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Indur Dawndeath
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Also try out The complete guide to Middle-Earth by Robert Foster