A Modest Proposal
If I may be so bold, I suggest you begin by asking them questions.
Questions about things, events and characters in LOTR. Get them talking about it so they revisit their interest and enthusiasm. And then ask them questions about the characters which cannot be answered by their knowledge of just the three books themselves. Get them curious about where things lead or how things got to where they did in LOTR.
Once they are curious to know more, you can explain how they can find more in the Appendices.
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I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away.
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