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Originally posted by rossroeThe big problem with these books is there is just so much going on all the time, they are not subtle books that you can simply mull over for half an hour on the way to work on the train. To understand whats going on in all the sub stories and plots you really need to do a lot back reading in the Hobbit, Unfinished Tales and Silmarillion, as well as re read the books over and over again. I have only just about worked out 100% how Aragon links all the way back to the very start of Tolkien's world, then it all makes sense why he was always going to marry the elf, unfortunately the reasons for all this are not in the main books.
Unfinnished tales and The Silmarillion are my bibles though :-)
The other bit I really like in in "unfinished tales", where Gandalf explains the whole sub plot of behind "the hobit" and you get a full piture of the grand political game Gandalf had been playing with each of the races in the world like a great chess game.
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Originally posted by latex bishopThat's in Unfinished Tales, no? Unfinished Tales is definitely worth a read for those who liked the Lord of the Rings or the Silmarillion-- Lost Tales perhaps not so much so. It's more the embryonic forms of the stories than anything else-- I wasn't able to get into it, and similarly have never been that interested in the History of Middle Earth series done by his son Christopher.
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The other bit I really like in in "lost tales", where Gandalf explains the whole sub plot of behind "the hobit" and you get a full piture of the grand political game Gandalf had been playing with each of the races in the world li ...[text shortened]... ed in the History of Middle Earth series done by his son Christopher.
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Originally posted by jgvaccarooops, my typo 😲
That's in Unfinished Tales, no? Unfinished Tales is definitely worth a read for those who liked the Lord of the Rings or the Silmarillion-- Lost Tales perhaps not so much so. It's more the embryonic forms of the stories than anything else-- I wasn't able to get into it, and similarly have never been that interested in the History of Middle Earth series done by his son Christopher.