Tolkien books.

Ruinel · 05-27-2003, 07:48 PM

I'm thinking about buying another Tolkien book. I would like to know if anyone can recommend one. Here is the list of books I already own:
The Hobbit
The Sil
UT
LotR: FotR
LotR: TTT
LotR: RotK
HoME: Vol X: MR
HoME: Vol XI: WotJ
HoME: Vol XII: PoME

Gwaimir Windgem · 05-27-2003, 08:29 PM

Hmm...I have three recommendations:

1. The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien
No explanation needed. The book rocks.

2. The Complete Guide to Middle-earth: Tolkien's World from A to Z
A fascinating work. If I am correct, the most reliable "encyclopedia" on Tolkien's works available.
3. Tolkien: Man and Myth
A fascinating biography of a fascinating man.

Gwaimir Windgem · 05-27-2003, 08:30 PM

Oh, you'd love this one:
Finding God in the Lord of the Rings

Ruinel · 05-27-2003, 08:51 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Gwaimir Windgem
Oh, you'd love this one:
Finding God in the Lord of the Rings

Gwaimir Windgem · 05-27-2003, 09:03 PM

Oh, come on. You KNOW you love it!

***Rían*** · 05-27-2003, 11:46 PM

(hee hee!!)

C'mon, Ru, admit you just love the Christians here to death, esp. Gwai and me!!

(grammatical note - notice the correct usage of "me", because it's a direct object)

***Rían*** · 05-27-2003, 11:53 PM

*checks her stash*

OK, I highly recommend HoME 3, The Lays of Beleriand. The only poetry I've ever really liked is Tolkien's, and this is awesome!! I've quoted from it before, do you remember? (and did you like it, if you remember?)

I have HoME 2 (BoLT 2), which I'm not wild about. Too many different names and too many cats. I also have HoME 7, The Treason of Isengard, also not wild about it (because I'm more of a First-Ager, like you are).

Letters is fabulous.

Also I like Bilbo's Last Song, a teensy little book but nice.

And for some really cool non-ME reading, get Leaf by Niggle, which is sometimes under the title Tree and Leaf. Also Smith of Wootton Major and Farmer Giles of Ham.

Bored of the Rings is an often hilarious but often overdone parody of LoTR.

***Rían*** · 05-27-2003, 11:55 PM

*rechecks Ru's list*

I don't have WoTJ, should that be next on my list?

Gwaimir Windgem · 05-28-2003, 12:01 AM

I'm actually saving up to buy all the HoMe books at once. Along with the complete Chronicles of Narnia, Dracula, and I believe the Hobbit and the Sil (Sil being an overseas copy; I doubt my first-printing one would make it).

Artanis · 05-28-2003, 04:23 AM

Ruinel, Since you've already read BoLT, I'll recommend HoME 3 The Lays of Beleriand. Those poems are great.

Thorunn · 05-28-2003, 07:11 AM

Isn´t there a book named´The people of Middle-earth' and if so would you recomend it?

Artanis · 05-28-2003, 08:30 AM

Hi Thorunn, nice to see a person from Iceland!

Quote:

Originally posted by Thorunn
Isn´t there a book named´The people of Middle-earth' and if so would you recomend it?

That's book number 12 of 12 in the 'History of Middle Earth' series. It contains the making of the prologue and appendices in the Lord of the Rings, and JRRT's late writings, some unfinished stories and some essays. Yes, I would recommend it.

Melko Belcha · 05-28-2003, 12:38 PM

I would go for The Book of Lost Tales part 1 & 2 next.

Here is a good book list
http://onering.virbius.com/booklist.php

This is a must have for any Tolkien fan: The Annotated Hobbit
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...glance&s=books

Ruinel · 05-28-2003, 09:50 PM

Wow! Great suggestions.

Rian: yes.. of course I like you and Gwai, despite the fact that you are christians (just kidding).

WotJ is pretty good. If I didn't already have it, I'd get it.

Thorunn: PoME is People of Middle Earth. It's good. Not as good as Morgoth's Ring (HoME Vol X: MR). If you have to get them one at a time, I'd get Morgoth's Ring. I liked that one a lot.

ACK!

Now I'm torn between HoME III: LoB and Letters! Maybe I'll look for a sale and get them both.

Gwaimir Windgem · 05-28-2003, 09:53 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Ruinel
Wow! Great suggestions.

1) Rian: yes.. of course I like you and Gwai, despite the fact that you are christians (just kidding).
2) WotJ is pretty good. If I didn't already have it, I'd get it.

1) Oh, you don't like us?

2) How do you know that you'd get it? How would you know it was good?

Tolkien: Man and Myth is really a great biography. I even wrote a critical book review on it for English.

Sheeana · 05-28-2003, 11:17 PM

*smacks Gwaimir for being a twat*

I recommend Letters. It's good because it's directly from the Man himself, as opposed to channeled through Chris, or Random Biographer #302.

Gwaimir Windgem · 05-29-2003, 12:01 AM

Yeah. Raw, unbridled Tolkien!

Ruinel · 05-29-2003, 09:55 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Sheeana
*smacks Gwaimir for being a twat*

I recommend Letters. It's good because it's directly from the Man himself, as opposed to channeled through Chris, or Random Biographer #302.

*smacks Gwai also, for being silly*

Thanks Gwai and BoP. I was torn between Letters and HoME3:LoB. Leaning more towards Letters now.

***Rían*** · 05-29-2003, 06:24 PM

Yeah, I think I'd plump for Letters over LoB - Letters is a different genre with a different view of JRRT, as opposed to more of his writings.

But LoB is really great, too - keep your eyes peeled for those sales!

Thorunn · 05-30-2003, 08:03 AM

Thanks I'll start with Morgoth's ring

05-27-2003, 07:48 PM	#1
Ruinel Banned Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: I have no idea. Posts: 5,441	Tolkien books. I'm thinking about buying another Tolkien book. I would like to know if anyone can recommend one. Here is the list of books I already own: The Hobbit The Sil UT LotR: FotR LotR: TTT LotR: RotK HoME: Vol X: MR HoME: Vol XI: WotJ HoME: Vol XII: PoME

05-27-2003, 08:29 PM	#2
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Hmm...I have three recommendations: 1. The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien No explanation needed. The book rocks. 2. The Complete Guide to Middle-earth: Tolkien's World from A to Z A fascinating work. If I am correct, the most reliable "encyclopedia" on Tolkien's works available. 3. Tolkien: Man and Myth A fascinating biography of a fascinating man. __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

05-27-2003, 09:03 PM	#5
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Oh, come on. You KNOW you love it! __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

05-27-2003, 11:46 PM	#6
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	(hee hee!!) C'mon, Ru, admit you just love the Christians here to death, esp. Gwai and me!! (grammatical note - notice the correct usage of "me", because it's a direct object) __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!

05-27-2003, 11:53 PM	#7
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	checks her stash OK, I highly recommend HoME 3, The Lays of Beleriand. The only poetry I've ever really liked is Tolkien's, and this is awesome!! I've quoted from it before, do you remember? (and did you like it, if you remember?) I have HoME 2 (BoLT 2), which I'm not wild about. Too many different names and too many cats. I also have HoME 7, The Treason of Isengard, also not wild about it (because I'm more of a First-Ager, like you are). Letters is fabulous. Also I like Bilbo's Last Song, a teensy little book but nice. And for some really cool non-ME reading, get Leaf by Niggle, which is sometimes under the title Tree and Leaf. Also Smith of Wootton Major and Farmer Giles of Ham. Bored of the Rings is an often hilarious but often overdone parody of LoTR. __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!

05-27-2003, 08:30 PM	#3
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Oh, you'd love this one: Finding God in the Lord of the Rings __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

05-27-2003, 11:55 PM	#8
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	rechecks Ru's list I don't have WoTJ, should that be next on my list? __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!

05-28-2003, 12:01 AM	#9
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	I'm actually saving up to buy all the HoMe books at once. Along with the complete Chronicles of Narnia, Dracula, and I believe the Hobbit and the Sil (Sil being an overseas copy; I doubt my first-printing one would make it). __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

05-28-2003, 04:23 AM	#10
Artanis Greatest Elven woman of Aman Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Having way too much fun with Fëanor's 7 Posts: 4,285	Ruinel, Since you've already read BoLT, I'll recommend HoME 3 The Lays of Beleriand. Those poems are great. __________________ --Life is hard, and then we die.

05-28-2003, 07:11 AM	#11
Thorunn Hobbit Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Iceland Posts: 15	Isn´t there a book named´The people of Middle-earth' and if so would you recomend it?

05-28-2003, 12:38 PM	#13
Melko Belcha Elven Warrior Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Behind the Walls of Night Posts: 286	I would go for The Book of Lost Tales part 1 & 2 next. Here is a good book list http://onering.virbius.com/booklist.php This is a must have for any Tolkien fan: The Annotated Hobbit http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...glance&s=books __________________ "....rapturous words from which ultimatley sprang the whole of my mythology" - JRR Tolkien Hail Earendel brightest of angels, over middle-earth sent unto men Crist by Cynewulf (lines 104-5)

05-28-2003, 09:50 PM	#14
Ruinel Banned Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: I have no idea. Posts: 5,441	Wow! Great suggestions. Rian: yes.. of course I like you and Gwai, despite the fact that you are christians (just kidding). WotJ is pretty good. If I didn't already have it, I'd get it. Thorunn: PoME is People of Middle Earth. It's good. Not as good as Morgoth's Ring (HoME Vol X: MR). If you have to get them one at a time, I'd get Morgoth's Ring. I liked that one a lot. ACK! Now I'm torn between HoME III: LoB and Letters! Maybe I'll look for a sale and get them both.

05-28-2003, 11:17 PM	#16
Sheeana Lord of the Pants Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 1,382	smacks Gwaimir for being a twat I recommend Letters. It's good because it's directly from the Man himself, as opposed to channeled through Chris, or Random Biographer #302.

05-29-2003, 12:01 AM	#17
Gwaimir Windgem Dread Mothy Lord and Halfwitted Apprentice Loremaster Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Thomas Aquinas College, Santa Paula, CA Posts: 10,820	Yeah. Raw, unbridled Tolkien! __________________ Crux fidelis, inter omnes arbor una nobilis. Nulla talem silva profert, fronde, flore, germine. Dulce lignum, dulce clavo, dulce pondus sustinens. 'With a melon?' - Eric Idle

05-29-2003, 06:24 PM	#19
*Rían* Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!) Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Not where I want to be ... Posts: 15,254	Yeah, I think I'd plump for Letters over LoB - Letters is a different genre with a different view of JRRT, as opposed to more of his writings. But LoB is really great, too - keep your eyes peeled for those sales! __________________ . I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva!

05-30-2003, 08:03 AM	#20
Thorunn Hobbit Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Iceland Posts: 15	Thanks I'll start with Morgoth's ring

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