Visit The *EVEN NEWER* Barrow-Downs Photo Page |
01-01-2002, 06:41 AM | #1 |
Pile O'Bones
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: UK
Posts: 21
|
Where Next After The Sil ?
In the next week or so I'll probably finish The Silmarillion. This will mean I've read The Hobbit, LotR and The Sil in the past month. At some point in the coming year I will almost certainly go back and re-read LotR and The Sil.
However, in the meantime I was wondering where I should go next ? I've ordered the first part of the 12 volumes of middle earth (lost tales vol 1) but I've read somewhere that maybe Unfinished Tales should be my next port of call. What do you fine people think ? Paul.
__________________
Ugluk u bagronk sha pushdug Saruman-glob bubhosh skai'... |
01-01-2002, 07:35 AM | #2 |
Pile O'Bones
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: UK
Posts: 21
|
...oh aye...and I've just noticed on Amazon (UK) that there are 2 Unfinished Tales books.
One is just called "Unfinished Tales" and the other (which I also saw on Amazon US) is entitled "Unfinished Tales Of Numenor And Middle Earth". Are these just the same books ?...where 1 is the US version and the other the UK one ? ...in addition to my earlier posting I'm starting to feel as if maybe I should read Unfinished Tales before starting the middle earth stuff...would u agree ? Paul.
__________________
Ugluk u bagronk sha pushdug Saruman-glob bubhosh skai'... |
01-01-2002, 08:42 AM | #3 |
Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Gondolin
Posts: 413
|
After the Silmarillion, the next book you read should definately be Unfinished Tales. If you like Unfinished Tales, you might want to give some of the HoME series a try.
The books 'Unfinished Tales' and 'Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle Earth' are indeed one and the same book. -Voronwe
__________________
"If you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in your life doubt, as far as possible, all things." -- René Descartes |
01-02-2002, 03:51 AM | #4 |
Eldar Spirit of Truth
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Land of the FREE, Home of the BRAVE
Posts: 794
|
Definately Unfinished Tales next! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
[ January 02, 2002: Message edited by: Elrian ]
__________________
*~*Call me a relic, call me what you will. Say I'm old fashioned , say I'm over the hill. That old whine ain't got no soul. I'll stick to Old Toby and a Hobbit hole.*~* |
01-03-2002, 08:33 AM | #5 |
Haunting Spirit
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Valinor
Posts: 55
|
Unfinished Tales! Unfinished Tales!
[img]smilies/smile.gif[/img]
__________________
Lord of the seas and one of the greatest of the Valar; in the dark days of the First Age, he kept watch on Elves and Men while the others of his order remained in Valinor. He is famed for bringing Tuor to Gondolin, and so ultimately bringing about the downfall of Morgoth in the War of Wrath. |
01-03-2002, 01:18 PM | #6 |
The Kinslayer
|
Certainly Unfinished Tales. The HoME series tends to get, well, somewhat scholastic. I would test the waters with the two Books of Lost Tales before running on to the rest. It can be fairly demanding, especially if you're trying to compare to the final text.
__________________
"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy." |
01-06-2002, 09:50 AM | #7 |
Guest
Posts: n/a
|
yes, the Unfinished Tales should be the next Tolkien book that you read.
|
01-06-2002, 10:50 AM | #8 |
Spirit of Mischief
Join Date: Sep 2000
Location: Land of the free and home of the brave
Posts: 366
|
Actually, I would not agree with Maedhros concerning the first two HoME books, The Book of Lost Tales I and II. These two books are very dry. The HoME books don't need to be read in order. Some are better than others. I'd try Morgoth's Ring or The Peoples of Middle-earth first.
-réd [ January 06, 2002: Message edited by: red ]
__________________
"Cats are like greatness: Some people are born into cat-loving families, some achieve cats, and some have cats thrust upon them." -William H. A. Carr |
01-08-2002, 01:35 PM | #9 |
Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: The Pacific Northwest - Tir Nan Og
Posts: 306
|
I am not fond of the HoMe books considering their content was a enlogue to what was published by tokien. More or less, it is stuff that he wanted to either change or change the definition of what was already written.
How many times have you read the Silmarillion? Put it down for a while and read it again. Every time you read it, you get something more out of it. You understand more depth then you could concieve. This would about the third or fourth time reading it.
__________________
Mes sana in corpec sano- (lt.) A sound mind in a sound body |
01-10-2002, 09:34 AM | #10 |
Haunting Spirit
Join Date: Oct 2001
Posts: 52
|
Of all of Tolkien's works, only six books are 'final' products:
Hobbit, FOTR, TT, ROTK, Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales. After this, the HoME series is largely a collection of scholarly works, essays and occasionally used background material. Even for the real die-hards it can be difficult reading at times. The absolutely best story in the BoLT is the story of the downfall of Gondolin in the second volume. I highly recommend it. - Cirdan |
01-10-2002, 10:23 PM | #11 |
Eldar Spirit of Truth
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Land of the FREE, Home of the BRAVE
Posts: 794
|
5 of them were, Unfinished Tales really isn't so complete consider the Tale of Galadriel and Celeborn, some of it talks about Amroth being their son, but it doesn't make it final, also He became King of Lothlorien, and yet Celeborn and Galadriel were better cut out for the job.
As to Eol's post, I agree, everytime you read the Sil, and the other books you pick up on things you missed before. All the more reason to reread them again. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
__________________
*~*Call me a relic, call me what you will. Say I'm old fashioned , say I'm over the hill. That old whine ain't got no soul. I'll stick to Old Toby and a Hobbit hole.*~* |
01-16-2002, 04:05 AM | #12 |
Haunting Spirit
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Switzerland
Posts: 57
|
It has nothing to do with Middle-Earth but in my opinion, the short story "Leaf by Niggle" is the best thing that Tolkien has ever written.
__________________
"It was only a glimpse then, but you might have caught the glimpse, if you had ever thought it worthwhile to try." |
|
|