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The "un" thing...
Unfinished Tales by J. R. R. Tolkien
Uncharted Territory by Connie Willis
The Unhandsome Prince by John Moore
Undead and Unwed by Mary Janice Davidson
Websters New Universal Unabridged Dictionary ... and so had to wait for it. The wait wasn't too bad since I already knew the story so well from The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales. The Deluxe edition was a pleasure to read and hold after having the regular edition in my hands a couple of times.
Anyway, I love this story along ... ... part of our national psyche. I've recently read a collection of 43 essays on What is a Canadian by Irvin Studinand The Unfinished Canadianby Andrew Cohen is on my TBR shelf. ... I'm reading The Children of Hurin which I'm enjoying tremendously. It's making me want to revisit The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales but they will have to wait as I'm travelling soon and need more portable books. So I'm taking Birdsong and Love in The Time of Cholera, both of which I ... #17 - Unfinished tales is the very reason I'm not too enthusiastic about Children of Hurin... I never ever managed to finish the book, it was such a disappointment after LoTR which I loved as a kid (and still enjoy). ... - I'm not a big fan of buying hardbacks, and if I'm going to struggle through Tolkien's non-LotR stuff, I should go finish Unfinished Tales.
I'm putting a vote in for the Temeraire series... I already have a copy of His Majesty's Dragon sitting on top of my TBR pile. The short version of Children of Hurin is what made me throw up my hands and put down Unfinished Tales for good, so I'd vote against that for a group read. Also, the whole "not available in paperback" thing is a detriment, at least as far as I'm concerned. ... appendix to Hurin. But Christopher does indicate there that "I allowed myself more editorial freedom than was necessary" in Unfinished Tales (Hurin, p 285). A very candid, even brave, statement. I think he is talking specifically about the Hurin tale, but very interesting observation. I was a ... I have read The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales,& The Book of Lost Tales (both 1 & 2 & wanted to know more about some of the stories especially The Fall of Gondolin Which apparently is in The Children of Hurin. I have started to read it but am still reading the forwards. I found the ... ... this online purchasing stuff!) I've just started to flesh out my Histories of Middle Earth collection... I already had the Unfinished Tales and the Book of Lost Tales books, as well as a couple of Histories, now - well, soon - I'll have the full set. Wahoo! ... The Hobbit, & The LotR by the end of the year along w/ the other non-Tolkien stuff I'm going to read. I have read Unfinished Tales as well as both volumes of Lost Tales but will probably not get to them again till next year along w/the rest of Chronological Tolkien. If I was to ... ... I could see, until this morning, and that was just Christopher and a name variant.
( I separated out a single copy of Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle Earth by P. Tolkien Christopher (which I then combined with the work by Christopher Tolkien as per touchstone).
What ... ... really complicated really fast. Plus, what about books that stay "active" for a really long time? I read the first bit of Unfinished Tales of Middle Earth in April, got horribly bored, and set it down. I'll probably go back to it at some point, so the gap between "date started" and "date ... ... interesting to see whether the stand-alone Children of Hurin will contain material not published in The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, or The History of Middle-earth. Personally, I find the expanded version in Unfinished Tales to be one of the more compelling fragments in Tolkien's ... ... to get it at some point just to make my collection complete. But like ulan, I may or may not finish it. I am enjoying Unfinished Tales, and I love The Silmarillion, but I never could get into the History of Middle Earth series. All 12 volumes look great sitting on my shelf, however! ...if I was to give any advice (and OK, advice is dangerous stuff) you don't even need reading Silmarillion or Unfinished tales. Those two books are for die hard fans. I got LoTR read to me by my father when I was 7 yrs (it took some 2 years), and after that I read and reread it by myself now ... ... interesting method to read about Middle Earth in chronological order, using LOTR, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, and Unfinished Tales. It's a bit tedious switching from book to book, but I am finding it quite interesting, although I am learning more about Turin than I ever wanted to know! ... ... Narn i Chîn Húrin (The Tale of the Children of Húrin) (Thanks, wikipedia!) is the section that made me give up on Unfinished Tales, so I'm not sure I can handle a full book-length version. ... trying to keep up with the Tolkien trivia game we were playing where the questions ranged across all the books. I stand by Unfinished Tales being a good read too, though. I loved the Silmarillion as a teenager, but now every time I try and reread it I fall asleep. *peers anxiously over her ... Easiest to read as a story is probably Unfinished Tales, Silmarillion gives the most background, all the history you can see lurking in the background of Lord of the Rings. And then there are the twelve volumes of History of Middle Earth which Christopher Tolkienpublished by putting ...
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