HoME??

[Mattius]

i have seen this a few times on the message boards, what does HoME mean????

[Selmo]

HoME is "The History of Middle Earth", a multi-volume publication edited by Christopher Tolkien.
The HoME books contain a very large amount of material by JRRT, mostly notes and early drafts of The Silmarillion and Lord of The Rings. They show how the stories developed in Tolkien's mind, how much the earlier bits had to be re-written as the later parts of the work emerged and how much was cut before The Sil and LoTR were published.

[Arwen Imladris]

The History of Middle Earth Series

1. The Book of Lost Tales, Part 1
2. The Book of Lost Tales, Part 2
3. The Lays of Beleriand
4. The Shaping of Middle-Earth: The Quenta, The Ambarkanta and the Annals
5. The Lost Road and Other Writings
6. The Return of the Shadow: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part One
7. The Treason of Isengard: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Two
8. The War of the Ring: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Three
9. Sauron Defeated: The History of the Lord of the Rings, Part Four
10. Morgoth's Ring: The Later Silmarillion, Part One : The Legends of Aman
11. The War of the Jewels: The Later Silmarillion : Part Two : The Legends of Beleriand
12. The Peoples of Middle-Earth