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Re: Which books are canon?
The word
canon if often used in discussion of Tolkien's works. It means 'law', and people using it refer to which of the novels can be considered 'fact' and which are just speculations by later authors (in this case, Christopher Tolkien).
The Lord of the Rings and
The Hobbit are definitey canon. JRRT wrote them and had them published.
The Silmarillion is also considered canon because Christopher Tolkien compiled it from materiel already written by his father.
Once you start getting into
Unfinished Tales you already begin to drift from canon because you are presented with multiple versions of the same story. Even further from canon is the entire
History of Middle Earth series. This group of books describes the construction of Middle-Earth rather than a narrative of it.
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