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Elven Warrior
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Good Order?
I, like many other young Tolkien fans, am wondering what order is best in which to read the books I own. I have already read the Hobbit, the Lord of the Rings, and the Simarillion. I want to read the Simarillion again, and I have many other books I want to read in addition to it. In what order should i read the following?
The Simarillion The Histories of Middle Earth (all of them) The Children of Hurin Tales From the Perilous Realm
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Unfinished Tales is a delight if you want to know more about Galadriel and Celeborn, what the Wraiths did before they got to the area outside Rivendale, and other toothsome goodies. You may find the Silmarillion, um, difficult in the early going. I know I did.
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I second the recommendation for Unfinished Tales. The only story in it that I don't like is Aldarion and Erendis. Everything else in it is gold.
Since you've already read the Big Three, order really doesn't matter much for the rest. I wouldn't attack HoME cover-to-cover. I'd read it piecemeal based on what your favorite stories are.
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okay, so I'll get the unfinished tales...what I was really asking about was in what ORDER to read them, not what to read. What do you think?
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If you are a Silm fan, read Lost Tales and Lays of Beleriand... If you are a LOTR fan, read volumes 6-8 where there are LOTR drafts and HOME 12 where there are the drafts for the Appendices. Home X (Morgoth's Ring) for me was the most difficult to struggle through, but it you do read it, you will learn a lot about ME metaphysics, fea and hroa, origin of Orcs, customs of the Eldar, Death and resurrection etc. |
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Read in the order of your interest, as has been said. Don't go cover-to-cover in any of the supplementary materials. Decide what you want to read about, then go there.
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Boswell: Life And: "Alas, Madam! How few books are there of which one can ever possibly arrive at the last page"
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