What Tolkien Books Did You Read ?

[Haldir]

I would like to know what Tolkien books did
you guys read, I read those:

smilies/biggrin.gifThe Hobbit,
smilies/wink.gifThe Fellowship Of THe Ring,
smilies/smile.gifThe Two Towers,
smilies/cool.gifThe Return Of The King,
smilies/redface.gifThe Silmarilon,
smilies/tongue.gifThe Unfinished Tales

What books did you read ?

[shieldmaiden]

Farmer Giles of Ham
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings
Silmarilion
Leaf by Niggle (is that the name of it in english)

and many other books related to Tolkien (David Day's for example)

[GollumsPrecious]

emm...howzabout....by JRR himself:

Tales From The Perilous Realm
Monsters & Critics
Fellowship of the Ring
Two Towers
Return of the King
The Hobbit

and by JRR but edited by Chris T:

The Silmarillion
Unfinished Tales
Lost Tales 1 (HoME1)
Lost Tales 2 (HoME2)
The Lays Of Beleriand (HoME3)
The Shaping of Middle Earth (HoME4)
The Lost Road (HoME5)
The Return of the Shadow (HoME6)
(just starting The Treason of Isengard)

About JRR:

Biography by Humpty Carpenter
Author of the Century by Tom Shippey

About Middle Earth:

Atlas Of Tolkiens World - Karyn Wynn Fonstad
Tolkiens A-Z by Robert Foster

Thats all I've managed so far...he he

Paul.

[piosenniel]

all of the works by J.R.R. Tolkien

also: The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales ed. by his son.

love The Atlas Of Middle Earth by Fonstad - as i am a very visually oriented elf.

[Tigerlily Gamgee]

Currently:
The Hobbit
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
Return of the King
The Silmarillion (almost done!)

I plan on reading all of the others as soon finaces allow me to purchase them (stupid people stole all of them from the local library!!!!!! smilies/mad.gif )

[twinkle]

The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings
that's it....

currently engaged in the fifth chapter of the silmarillion proper, all others will follow as time allows.....

tolkien is a god smilies/biggrin.gif

twinkle

[piosenniel]

did anyone read Roverandom? did you enjoy it? I did smilies/smile.gif

[Nufaciel]

Yes, I have read Roverandom, and I enjoyed it very much.

I have also read:

The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, The Father Christmas Letters, Monsters and the Critics

I'm working on Unfinished Tales and Morgoth's Ring.

I've also read books about Tolkien and Middle-earth that were not written by Tolkien or edited by Christopher Tolkien.

[Haldir]

How about Tree And Leaf, The Adventures Of Tom Bobadill
and The Smith Of Wootton Major, did anyone read those ?
Are they any good ?

[ March 24, 2002: Message edited by: Haldir ]

[ElanorGamgee]

I have read The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King. And I'm sure that I'll read a lot more books by Tolkien as soon as get my hands on copies of them smilies/smile.gif

[Birdland]

OK, I'm confused. I just picked up The Return of the Shadow at the book store. It's sub-titled "The History of The Lord of The Rings". But I saw Gollumsprecious as listing it as HoME. Are these two different series?

And yes, I did look at a small copy of The Silm. I was going to buy it, honestly. But then I opened it up and started reading, and there they were...the NAMES! Dozens of freakin' NAMES! My eyes started to glaze right there in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy section.

When I see some elf delving into the History of the Ohio River Valley and the Great Migration of the Irish to the New World, maybe then I'll take a crack at learning THEIR history. Until then...fugedaboudit!

[Bruce MacCulloch]

Return of the Shadow is volume 6 of History of Middle Earth (abbreviated HoME). Volumes 6-9 of HoME are also called History of Middle Earth.

[Glim Iceholder]

The Hobbit
LOTR
The Silmarillion
Unfinished Tales
And I will be getting The Book of Lost Tales soon.

[Bramblerose Gamgee-Took]

Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
Return Of The King
The Hobbit- acutally, I am reading that for the first time now
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[Joy]

Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
Return of the King
The Hobbit
The Silmarillion - currently
Unfinished Tales - currently
Book of Lost Tales 2 - currently
Lays of Beleriand - currently


I am reading all tales of Beren and Lùthien together.

[Gabo Darvas]

Farmer Giles of Ham
Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
The Hobbit

Just started The Silmarillion. smilies/smile.gif

[Arvedui]

The Hobbit,
The Fellowship Of The Ring,
The Two Towers,
The Return Of The King,
The Silmarilon,
The Unfinished Tales


Which is the same list as Haldir.

[Mitheithel]

I`ve read:

smilies/biggrin.gif The Hobbit
smilies/smile.gif The Fellowship of the Ring
smilies/smile.gif The Two Towers
smilies/smile.gif The Return of the King
smilies/wink.gif The Silmarillion
smilies/biggrin.gif Farmer Giles of Ham

And those not written by Tolkien:

smilies/wink.gif The Magical Worlds of The Lord of the Rings

That`s it. I`d love to read "Unfinished Tales" and maybe something else about the history of Middle-Earth, but none of these are avaliable in Estonia. Sorry if this is off topic but are they avaliable online?

[shieldmaiden]

Since the time I first posted on this theme I've read:
The Unfinished Tales
The Book of Lost tales I
The Book of Lost Tales II
and fragments of other books concerning the history of Middle Earth

[Luinalatawen]

So far:

Lord of the Rings (2X)
The Hobbit (2X)
The Silmarillion

Next up for me is Unfinished Tales.

[manaratowen]

i have read so far: the lord of the rings, the hobbit, the silmarilloin. i also read the magical worlds of lotr. i am currently reading the book of lost tales part one. i have books 2, 3 & 4. i have also the laungues of middle earth, the complete guide to me, and the atlas of me. boy.... i have a lot of reading to do...lol.

[Sophia the Thunder Mistress]

Hm, this gets complicated for me, because (especially in HoME) I've picked and chosen without reading the whole thing quite often. But my best summary is:

Lord of the Rings (repeatedly)
Whatever's in the Tolkien Reader-
I believe its Farmer Giles,
On Fairy Stories,
the Homecoming of Beo... (someone, my books are packed),
The Adventures of Tom B.,
and Leaf by Niggle.
The Silmarillion (repeatedly)
Most of Unfinished Tales
Lost Tales I&II
The Monsters and the Critics
The interesting parts from Lays of Beleriand
The Lost Road and other writings
a few articles whenever I can get my hands on a copy of Vinya Tengwar

Other things include:
the Humphrey Carter Biography
Verlyn Flieger, Splintered Light
and the Saucepan Man's favorite, the Tolkien Companion (read sadly, cover to cover)

Sophia

[GaladrieloftheOlden]

The Hobbit
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Stories
(Almost all of) The Book of Lost Tales I
Roverandom

That's it so far, but I plan to read more all the time smilies/smile.gif

~Menelien

[Afrodal Fenyar]

The Hobbit

The Lord of the Rings
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King

The Silmarillion
Unfinished Tales

The History of Middle-Earth
1. The Book of Lost Tales, part 1
2. The Book of Lost Tales, part 2
3. Lays of Beleriand

Currently seeking HoME IV

[al'Thingolfin]

I've read...

The Hobbit
the Lord of the Rings
Tales From The Perilous Realm


The Silmarillion
Unfinished Tales
History of middle-earth 1-12


Biography by Carpenter


About Middle Earth:

Atlas Of Tolkiens World - Karyn Wynn Fonstad
Tolkiens A-Z by Robert Foster

[Aragorn2002]

I havn't read many...

The Hobbit

The Fellowship of the Rings
The To Twowers
Return of the kings

and I started but never finished the Simmerillion
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[Helkahothion]

Lord of the rings
The hobbit
and I am currently reading the silmarillion.

It's really funny actualy, I have not read the Hobbit and Silm a while back ago and when I started reading I started to regocnize all the quotes from the Barrow Downs. Of course I understood the Lotr ones, but the Hobbit ones I did not.

Suilad,

Anuion

[Iargwath]

J.R.R.Tolkien/Christopher Tolkien
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers
The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King The Silmarillion
Unfinished Tales
The Book of Lost Tales 1&2
The Lays of Beleriand
The Lost Road and other Writings

Currently reading Sauron Defeated and i have the rest of the HoME series at home which i intend to read later on...

Other Writings
Letters From Father Christmas
A Tolkien Biestary: David Day

[Mahal]

J.R.R./Cristopher Tolkien
The hobbit
Fellowship of the Ring
Two Towers
Return of the King
The silmarillion
Unfinished tales
and have orderd the Book of lost tales I plan on reading him as soon as it gets here.

[Yavanna228]

J.R.R./Christopher Tolkien books I've read:
The Silmarillion- rereading
Unfinished Tales- rereading
Farmer Giles of Ham
Smith of Wooton Major
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King

Peace

[Aule]

smilies/smile.gif Farmer Giles of Ham
smilies/biggrin.gif The Hobbit
smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif LotR - All 3 off the books obviously
smilies/biggrin.gif smilies/biggrin.gif The Silmarillion
smilies/biggrin.gif Unfinished Tales

All fantastic reads, and i read them all pretty often.

[Guinevere]

I have read, in this order:
*The Hobbit
*LotR
*Tree and Leaf (containing "on fairy-stories", "Leaf by Niggle", "Mythopoeia" and "the Homecoming of Beorhtnoth"
*The Silmarillion
*Tolkien's Biography by Humphrey Carpenter
*"Tolkien, author of the century" by Tom Shippey
* The letters of JRR Tolkien
* Unfinished Tales
* Tales from the perilous realm (have bought this recently, but not yet read)containing "Farmer Giles","The adventures of Tom Bombadil" and "Smith of Wootton Major"

and all this in the last 2 years...LotR several times, too! Have hardly read anything not Tolkien-related since then.

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[gilraën]

I've read these books at least twice, some of them a lot more than that..

The Hobbit
Lord of the Rings
Silmarilion
Unfinished Tales

And also.....

The Letters of JRR Tolkien

I have the HoME vols 1-12 and have read most of 1,2 and 12 and bits and pieces of each of the others, they are good to dip in and out of.

I've also read some of The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, not all.

[The Saucepan Man]

Saucepan's Tolkien bibliography:

The Hobbit (about 4 times, twice recently).

Lord of the Rings (about 5 times, but only once recently, and I'm only just reading the Appendices since all but the Tale of Aragorn and Arwen were omitted from my previous editions smilies/frown.gif ).

The Silmarillion (tried and failed about twenty years ago and recently succeeded smilies/smile.gif ).

Currently reading the Unfinished Tales.

I also have a vague memory of reading Farmer Giles of Ham, but cannot recall much about it, so that's one of the next on my reading list.

Oh, and Bored of the Rings (once, about 20 years ago so I must read that one again soon too. smilies/biggrin.gif )

[Finwe]

So far, I've read The Hobbit, LotR, the Sil, and UT about fifty billion times. In the HoME series, I've read The Books of Lost Tales 1 and 2, the Lays of Beleriand, the Shaping of Middle-earth, Lost Road and other tales, Morgoth's Ring, Return of the Shadow, and War of the Jewels (all at least twice). As you can tell, I have absolutely no life!

[Gandalf The Grey]

I've read
The Hobbit 4 times
LOTR (all) 4 times
and I'm re-reading THe Silmarilion
unfortunatly not much variety smilies/frown.gif

[Frodo2968thewhite]

I've read and studied:
Lord of the Rings (once a year)
-FOTR
-TTT
-ROTK
The Hobbit (twice)
UT
SILM (twice)
JRR Tolkien handbook (once through, and for reference)
Complete Guide To Middle-Earth (once through, & for reference)
Hobbits Elves & Wizards
Magical worlds of Lord of the Rings (worst)
The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-Earth (once through, and for reference)
Lays of Beleriand
The Lost Road
Book of Lost Tales 1&2
Return of the Shadow (reference)
Treason of Isengard (twice through)
War of the Ring (study guide)
Adventures of Tom Bombadil
Sir Gawain & the Green Knight

[Eönwë]

This thread is 5 years old.

[Morthoron]

Wait, so you're saying someone wrote books out of the Lord of the Rings movies? I certainly hope they're not as tacky as the Star Wars and Star Trek books, but I doubt any author could match the brilliance of Peter Jackson's script-writing. Still, everyone's got to make a buck I guess.

[Olórin the White]

J.R.R./Christopher Tolkien
- The Fellowship of the Ring (5ish times)
- The Two Towers (see FotR)
- The Return of the King (6x? 7x?)
- The Hobbit (2x)
- The Silmarillion (9x)
- Unfinished Tales (once, and for reference)
- The Book of Lost Tales (1x)
- The Lays of Beleriand (1x)
- The Children of Hurin (1x)
- Beowulf and the Critics
- "On Faerie Stories"

Other
- The J.R.R. Tolkien Handbook
- Understanding the Lord of the Rings: The Best of Tolkien Criticism (a collection of essays)
- Tolkien: A Biography (by Michael White)

as wel as a handful of other books delving into the philosophies presented in the books...

:) love them all!

[Groin Redbeard]

Has anyone checked out his book, "Sir Gwain and the Green Knight"? It's excellent, and very much underrated.

[Olórin the White]

Tolkien didn't write Sir Gawain and the Green Knight...but he did translate it.
Unless of course you are speaking of Tolkien's essay on that tale, which can be found in the Monsters and the Critics I believe :)

but yes, highly underrated as a piece of literature.

[Eönwë]

My list looks short compared to some (but I'm only 14):

LOTR (All seven books, or three+appendices, depending on how you look at it.) - first when I was 11
The Hobbit- first when I was 8
The Silmarillion- first when I was 12
The UT- first when I was 13
BoLT 1- When I was 13

edit: oh, and Tales from the Perilous Realm

[Groin Redbeard]

My list looks short compared to some (but I'm only 14):

LOTR (All seven books, or three+appendices, depending on how you look at it.) - first when I was 11
The Hobbit- first when I was 8
The Silmarillion- first when I was 12
The UT- first when I was 13
BoLT 1- When I was 13

edit: oh, and Tales from the Perilous Realm

Wow, you sure are young to be reading such complex books as these. I've never heard of the last one, I'll have to look that one up!:D

[Elmo]

Perilous Realm is a great book, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil contains some of my favourite Tolkien poems.

[ArathornJax]

I was in Barnes and Noble yesterday and checking out the clearance/discount books at the front of the store and found 10 copies of ROTK hardcover with Illustrations by Allan Lee for only $7.98. Well, I've always wanted this and so I picked it up. Anyway, just wanted to share this find incase someone is in a Barnes and Noble and they want to look and see if they find this. I would assume they would since the stores seem to get the same duplicate volumes in for overstock, clearance/discount.

[Borromino]

All..............:D

[Maedhros_the_Tall]

For me just the standard, basic Tolkien reading list it seems

The Silmarillion
The Hobbit
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
Unfinished Tales
The Children of Hurin (god knows why I actually bought that, I'd read pretty much everything in it in the Sil and UT!!)

A few years ago I tried the first Book of Lost Tales, but just couldn't get into it, the english was just too archaic, but I intend to try again when I'm off over summer, and I'm going to try for the History of Middle Earth series as well :)

[Eönwë]

A few years ago I tried the first Book of Lost Tales, but just couldn't get into it, the english was just too archaic, but I intend to try again when I'm off over summer, and I'm going to try for the History of Middle Earth series as well :)

Yes, well, I know how you feel. The first time I tried, I couldn't read it, but for a different reason.

[Ibrîniðilpathânezel]

The only thing I haven't read is the recent Children of Hurin, and I'm in no rush. I've also had the pleasure of visiting the Tolkien archives at Marquette University several times (the joy of living in the area, and having a spouse who's an alumnus of the university). It's quite thrilling, seeing some of the handwritten drafts, and the various corrections and notations, also done in the Professor's own hand.

[McCaber]

The only thing I haven't read is the recent Children of Hurin, and I'm in no rush. I've also had the pleasure of visiting the Tolkien archives at Marquette University several times (the joy of living in the area, and having a spouse who's an alumnus of the university). It's quite thrilling, seeing some of the handwritten drafts, and the various corrections and notations, also done in the Professor's own hand.
I saw those journals once as well. Actually seeing those pages Tolkien wrote with his own hand, it was something else. I remember the beautiful maps most of all.

Anyway, I've read all of his major works and am currently working through the HoME, vol. V.

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I've read TH and LotR (duh) and The Sil, Unfinished Tales, The Tolkien Reader, and am currently working through HoME (very slowly, while reading a romance novel and the Chronicles of Narnia... again)
HoME has been a bit tricky for me because of the constant notes that Christopher Tolkien has put into it everywhere. I need to get my mom to buy me the last six books of HoME. (I got them for Christmas along with much more Middle-Earth related stuffs, including a full colour map of Middle-Earth, Wilderland, Valinor and Beleriand!)
Wow, you sure are young to be reading such complex books as these. I've never heard of the last one, I'll have to look that one up!:D I read all of the Books listed above when I was 13 (a year ago!:D) and if I had discovered them sooner, then I would have read them sooner!

I was in Barnes and Noble yesterday and checking out the clearance/discount books at the front of the store and found 10 copies of ROTK hardcover with Illustrations by Allan Lee for only $7.98. Well, I've always wanted this and so I picked it up. Anyway, just wanted to share this find incase someone is in a Barnes and Noble and they want to look and see if they find this. I would assume they would since the stores seem to get the same duplicate volumes in for overstock, clearance/discount.
:eek:NO WAY!!!! I bet that they don't have them in Alaska or Washington (my current location)... I have to miss out... again...

[Eönwë]

I read all of the Books listed above when I was 13 (a year ago!:D) and if I had discovered them sooner, then I would have read them sooner!

So would I!

And now I'm probably going to start the rest of HoME (But £100!- maybe I'll wait a bit)

[Maedhros_the_Tall]

So would I!

And now I'm probably going to start the rest of HoME (But £100!- maybe I'll wait a bit)

Is it worth trying at your local library? Either to get them from there or order them in from another library? On play.com they have them bundled into 3 volumes for about 45 pound each, and as much as I'd like to read them, theres no way I'm touching them at that price!! Lol. As soon as I'm from university for summer, I'm going to try my library for them!! :D

[Eönwë]

Is it worth trying at your local library?

Not all libraries have them, sadly, as I found out earlier this year.

[Ibrîniðilpathânezel]

Actually, a university library might be more likely to have them than a local public, since they're more scholarly than entertaining to most folks. Though our local does -- just a weird little town I live in. :)

[Eönwë]

Actually, a university library might be more likely to have them than a local public, since they're more scholarly than entertaining to most folks.

Then I'll just have to wait until I go to university *sigh*:p

[Maedhros_the_Tall]

Then I'll just have to wait until I go to university *sigh*:p

Only a few years! :)

[cesar.ewok]

I have read:

By J.R.R. Tolkien:

The Lord of the Rings
The Hobbit

Edited by C.T.:

The Silmarillion
Unfinished Tales
The Book of Lost Tales I and I (except for the last chapter)
The Shaping of Middle-earth
Morgoth's Ring
War of the Jewels
Peoples of Middle-earth
Some parts of the Lost Road
The Children of Húrin

I'm currently reading the Letters, and hope to read the History of the Lord of the Rings after it.

Though I am Brazilian, I really enjoy reading the Lost Tales, despite its archaic English.

[kementari]

Is the Silmarillion a good read, because there is so much unexplained history in Lotr. I thought the Sil' might quench my thirst for more knowledge.

[Nerwen]

Yes, the Silmarillion does fill in a lot of the history.

Is it a good read? Well, it's written in an archaic style, and some people find it very hard-going. On the other hand, I read it first when I was ten or eleven and loved it, so... *shrugs*

Out of curiosity, Kementari, how did you come to name yourself after a character in a book you haven't read yet?:confused:

[skip spence]

Is it a good read? Well, it's written in an archaic style, and some people find it very hard-going. On the other hand, I read it first when I was ten or eleven and loved it, so... *shrugs*


You read the Silmarillion when you were 10 and loved it? Jeez, aren't you a clever girl!? :)

[Nerwen]

That does sound rather smug, doesn't it?:o

[skip spence]

I didn't really mean to highlight your smugness (well, maybe a little ;)) rather your cleverness. I read (most of) LotR when I was maybe 10 and although I enjoyed it, there was a lot I didn't understand. For example, I wasn't sure Sauron and Sauruman were different people until I saw the Bakshi cartoon a few years later.

[cesar.ewok]

It happened to me while I was reading Harry Potter I. I thought Snape was a ghost until I saw the film! :)