Suggestions for books to read by Tolkien

>>7538088
could the Hobbit be published today? I don't think there's a single woman in the book outside of Bilbo's aunt/cousin or whatever who is mentioned in passing.

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>>7538088
>Suggestions for books to read by Tolkien
All of it.

Pic needs an update with my Red Book.

>>7538088
how do i get into the silmarillion? I tried reading it but it's so damn confusing. I've read LOTR and the hobbit but this one feels like an appendix of events rather than a real story.

>>7538137
Did you read the preface? It's not a story at all, it's a series of events which links everything together. However there IS an over-arching story as it's all about jewels.

It took me a second read to fully begin to understand everything.

Read Hurin if you haven't and maybe Unfinished Tales if you are having a lot of trouble getting through it, it's really dense.

300 pages outline the whole history of Arda where he used ~1000+ pages to write LOTR alone.

>>7538088
Definitive for over 15 years:
http://tolkien.slimy.com/
Only covers the Middle-earth books, though.

>>7538232
Best non-Middle-earth, IMHO: Farmer Giles of Ham.
Quite different in tone from the Middle-earth books. Published 5 yrs before LOTR. Elements of parody and class conflict prominent.

>>7538256
>Farmer Giles of Ham.
Fuck yeah.

>>7538119
damn, is that all the volumes of the History of Middle-Earth? How is it?

>>7539748
To say the least. Massive.

Worth every cent.

>>7539762
cool, I picked up Unfinished Tales this Christmas, so perhaps I'll get to the History of Middle-Earth after that. Or I might re-read Children of Húrin. Túrin's story really is heavy stuff.