Oh certainly do whatever projects and the general dates you had planned. I just showed more interest in
The Hobbit, because like LOTR, that is a book I can sit down and read cover to cover.
I do have Unfinished Tales, but it's just not written in a way that I've ever been able to read straight through. I used it more as a reference for discussions. I'll try to follow the UT CbC, but for myself, I've been itching for a Hobbit re-read.
And it may work out that I don't even get to it until Spring. Much to the like of some friends, I was FINALLY able to read
The Deathly Hallows (yes I'm a terrible Potter fan
). Next one I intend to get to is starting George Martin's
Song of Ice and Fire, but haven't started on that one yet.