What Tolkien Books Did You Read ?

[Groin Redbeard]

Has anyone checked out his book, "Sir Gwain and the Green Knight"? It's excellent, and very much underrated.

[Olórin the White]

Tolkien didn't write Sir Gawain and the Green Knight...but he did translate it.
Unless of course you are speaking of Tolkien's essay on that tale, which can be found in the Monsters and the Critics I believe

but yes, highly underrated as a piece of literature.

[Eönwë]

My list looks short compared to some (but I'm only 14):

LOTR (All seven books, or three+appendices, depending on how you look at it.) - first when I was 11
The Hobbit- first when I was 8
The Silmarillion- first when I was 12
The UT- first when I was 13
BoLT 1- When I was 13

edit: oh, and Tales from the Perilous Realm

[Groin Redbeard]

Originally Posted by Eönwë

My list looks short compared to some (but I'm only 14):

LOTR (All seven books, or three+appendices, depending on how you look at it.) - first when I was 11
The Hobbit- first when I was 8
The Silmarillion- first when I was 12
The UT- first when I was 13
BoLT 1- When I was 13

edit: oh, and Tales from the Perilous Realm

Wow, you sure are young to be reading such complex books as these. I've never heard of the last one, I'll have to look that one up!

[Borromino]

All..............

[Maedhros_the_Tall]

For me just the standard, basic Tolkien reading list it seems

The Silmarillion
The Hobbit
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
Unfinished Tales
The Children of Hurin (god knows why I actually bought that, I'd read pretty much everything in it in the Sil and UT!!)

A few years ago I tried the first Book of Lost Tales, but just couldn't get into it, the english was just too archaic, but I intend to try again when I'm off over summer, and I'm going to try for the History of Middle Earth series as well

[TheGreatElvenWarrior]

I've read TH and LotR (duh) and The Sil, Unfinished Tales, The Tolkien Reader, and am currently working through HoME (very slowly, while reading a romance novel and the Chronicles of Narnia... again)
HoME has been a bit tricky for me because of the constant notes that Christopher Tolkien has put into it everywhere. I need to get my mom to buy me the last six books of HoME. (I got them for Christmas along with much more Middle-Earth related stuffs, including a full colour map of Middle-Earth, Wilderland, Valinor and Beleriand!)

Originally Posted by Groin Redbeard

Wow, you sure are young to be reading such complex books as these. I've never heard of the last one, I'll have to look that one up!

I read all of the Books listed above when I was 13 (a year ago!) and if I had discovered them sooner, then I would have read them sooner!

Originally Posted by ArathornJax

I was in Barnes and Noble yesterday and checking out the clearance/discount books at the front of the store and found 10 copies of ROTK hardcover with Illustrations by Allan Lee for only $7.98. Well, I've always wanted this and so I picked it up. Anyway, just wanted to share this find incase someone is in a Barnes and Noble and they want to look and see if they find this. I would assume they would since the stores seem to get the same duplicate volumes in for overstock, clearance/discount.

NO WAY!!!! I bet that they don't have them in Alaska or Washington (my current location)... I have to miss out... again...

[Eönwë]

Originally Posted by TheGreatElvenWarrior

I read all of the Books listed above when I was 13 (a year ago!) and if I had discovered them sooner, then I would have read them sooner!

So would I!

And now I'm probably going to start the rest of HoME (But £100!- maybe I'll wait a bit)

[Maedhros_the_Tall]

Originally Posted by Eönwë

So would I!

And now I'm probably going to start the rest of HoME (But £100!- maybe I'll wait a bit)

Is it worth trying at your local library? Either to get them from there or order them in from another library? On play.com they have them bundled into 3 volumes for about 45 pound each, and as much as I'd like to read them, theres no way I'm touching them at that price!! Lol. As soon as I'm from university for summer, I'm going to try my library for them!!

[Eönwë]

Originally Posted by Maedhros_the_Tall

Is it worth trying at your local library?

Not all libraries have them, sadly, as I found out earlier this year.

[Ibrîniðilpathânezel]

Actually, a university library might be more likely to have them than a local public, since they're more scholarly than entertaining to most folks. Though our local does -- just a weird little town I live in.