History of the Lord of the Rings - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

The Sixth Wizard · 07-13-2008, 07:35 AM

Hey don't worry. After all, technically only LOTR and the Hobbit are "canonical" works. The others are sometimes conflicting and are changeable. I haven't read anything past the Hobbit, LOTR, the Silmarillion and the Children of Hurin, but I consider myself a Tolkien fan.

I would recommend you get CoH, but don't pay too steep a price for it. It's a good book, Turin is a tragic character but it repeats the Silmarillion a fair bit (the font size and margin width are rather big too...)

07-13-2008, 07:35 AM	#8
The Sixth Wizard Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Stuck under a rock in Valinor with Ar-Pharazon. Posts: 480	Hey don't worry. After all, technically only LOTR and the Hobbit are "canonical" works. The others are sometimes conflicting and are changeable. I haven't read anything past the Hobbit, LOTR, the Silmarillion and the Children of Hurin, but I consider myself a Tolkien fan. I would recommend you get CoH, but don't pay too steep a price for it. It's a good book, Turin is a tragic character but it repeats the Silmarillion a fair bit (the font size and margin width are rather big too...)