Mithadan is right, HoME is a tough (but enjoyable) read. Especially if you are going to read all the annotations and footnotes. I read the Unfinished Tales, then the Silmarillion, and then the Letters of Tolkien before I started on the History of Middle Earth. I'm currently in the middle of The Book of Lost Tales Part 2, which is the second book in the History of Middle Earth series.
[ February 28, 2002: Message edited by: Thingol ]
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Yet the lies that Melkor, the mighty and accursed, Morgoth Bauglir, the Power of Terror and of Hate, sowed in the hearts of Elves and Men are a seed that does not die and cannot be destroyed; and ever and anon it sprouts anew, and will bear dark fruit even unto the latest days.
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