History of the Lord of the Rings

[Eönwë]

Originally Posted by The Sixth Wizard

Hey don't worry. After all, technically only LOTR and the Hobbit are "canonical" works. The others are sometimes conflicting and are changeable. I haven't read anything past the Hobbit, LOTR, the Silmarillion and the Children of Hurin, but I consider myself a Tolkien fan.

I would recommend you get CoH, but don't pay too steep a price for it. It's a good book, Turin is a tragic character but it repeats the Silmarillion a fair bit (the font size and margin width are rather big too...)

I think I might disagree with you there. The Hobbit isn't completely canon either.

But if you haven't read the UT (Unfinished Tales), read that. It gives more depth to a lot of the stuff in LOTR, TH and the Silm.