There are 12 volumes of The History of Middle-Earth to read, and if you want to get to know the author better, you can read Humphrey Carpenter's biography of Tolkien and Tolkien's letters. There are also the shorter stories Farmer Giles of Ham, the Adventures of Tom Bombadil, Leaf by Niggle (those included in the Tolkien Reader), Smith of Wootton Major, the children's book Roverandom...
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth.. .'
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