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Iarwain · 04-04-2003, 10:15 PM

Nice list, Lindil, it looks exactly like a greek textbook that I own... [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

This is by no means as educated a suggestion as lindil's, but if you've read the Hobbit and LotR, my next choice would be the Silmarillion. It is, as many say, demanding of the reader, but it is also (after the Hobbit and LotR) the most straightforward of Tolkien's books. The History of Middle Earth series is a collection of manuscripts tied in with their commentaries by Tolkien's son Christopher, and can be extremely confusing to the unaquainted reader. You could, of course, read some of the other books, like "the Adventures of Tom Bombadil" or "Author of the Century", but those are perhaps a little distant from the rest of middle earth. It's all up to you.

Iarwain

04-04-2003, 10:15 PM	#1
Iarwain Pugnaciously Primordial Paradox Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Birnham Wood Posts: 800	Nice list, Lindil, it looks exactly like a greek textbook that I own... [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] This is by no means as educated a suggestion as lindil's, but if you've read the Hobbit and LotR, my next choice would be the Silmarillion. It is, as many say, demanding of the reader, but it is also (after the Hobbit and LotR) the most straightforward of Tolkien's books. The History of Middle Earth series is a collection of manuscripts tied in with their commentaries by Tolkien's son Christopher, and can be extremely confusing to the unaquainted reader. You could, of course, read some of the other books, like "the Adventures of Tom Bombadil" or "Author of the Century", but those are perhaps a little distant from the rest of middle earth. It's all up to you. Iarwain __________________ "And what are oaths but words we say to God?"