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Rimbaud · 12-09-2004, 10:30 AM

Your topic will be moved, Matea, as it is probably suited to the Newcomers forum, but here's a reply regardless.

If you're looking for another Middle-Earth novel in the form of LotR / TH then I'm afraid you are to be disappointed. However, Tolkien left behind a rich history, or Legendarium, for the world of Middle-Earth and as good a place to start is the Silmarillion, which tells the story of the creating of the world, and a hundred other tales of Tolkien's histories besides.

To back up the Middle-Earth books, there is a collection of assorted essays, notes, corrections, unfinished and alternative stories and much else, collated and edited by Tolkien's son, the twelve volumes (!) of the History of Middle-Earth (HoME). There is also the book Unfinished Tales, which is much as it sounds.

Beyond ME completely? Tolkien wrote widely, and his most notable non-ME works are thus:

Roverandom
Smith of Wootton Major and Farmer Giles of Ham
Tree and Leaf (Superb essay 'On Fairy Stories, the short Leaf by Niggle, and the poem Mythopoeia)

There are other collections of letters, some literary criticism and some scholarly essays - Tolkien was foremost a linguist. His translation of Beowulf is well-regarded still, if not unaminously. Same for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The front page of the BarrowDowns (www.barrowdowns.com) has links to these books and more.

My advice? Try LotR again, more slowly, and see if you like it enough to browse the Appendices at the end. If you enjoyed that, try the Sil.

12-09-2004, 10:30 AM	#2
Rimbaud The Perilous Poet Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Heart of the matter Posts: 1,062	JRRT Books Your topic will be moved, Matea, as it is probably suited to the Newcomers forum, but here's a reply regardless. If you're looking for another Middle-Earth novel in the form of LotR / TH then I'm afraid you are to be disappointed. However, Tolkien left behind a rich history, or Legendarium, for the world of Middle-Earth and as good a place to start is the Silmarillion, which tells the story of the creating of the world, and a hundred other tales of Tolkien's histories besides. To back up the Middle-Earth books, there is a collection of assorted essays, notes, corrections, unfinished and alternative stories and much else, collated and edited by Tolkien's son, the twelve volumes (!) of the History of Middle-Earth (HoME). There is also the book Unfinished Tales, which is much as it sounds. Beyond ME completely? Tolkien wrote widely, and his most notable non-ME works are thus: Roverandom Smith of Wootton Major and Farmer Giles of Ham Tree and Leaf (Superb essay 'On Fairy Stories, the short Leaf by Niggle, and the poem Mythopoeia) There are other collections of letters, some literary criticism and some scholarly essays - Tolkien was foremost a linguist. His translation of Beowulf is well-regarded still, if not unaminously. Same for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The front page of the BarrowDowns (www.barrowdowns.com) has links to these books and more. My advice? Try LotR again, more slowly, and see if you like it enough to browse the Appendices at the end. If you enjoyed that, try the Sil. __________________ And all the rest is literature Last edited by Rimbaud; 12-09-2004 at 10:51 AM.