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| Dormant: The Green Dragon : Children of Hurin | | 10 | michadillge, November 2007 | |
| Dormant: List Five Books Parlour Game : Really, really yucky food | | 10 | xorscape, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: Reading Resolutions : The "Finished" Pile | | 29 | parelle, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: List Five Books Parlour Game : Lost | | 17 | mzonderm, August 2007 | |
| Dormant: The Green Dragon : Confused about the Complete History of Middle Earth | | 5 | cad_lib, May 2007 | |
| Dormant: The Green Dragon : Books and Movies | | 66 | reading_fox, May 2007 | |
| Dormant: The Green Dragon : Tolkien Topic Friday: The Children of Hurin... | | 18 | jenknox, April 2007 | |
| Book talk : Books that everyone loves and you hate | | 384 | debbiedebbiedebbie, Monday 10:44am |
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| The Green Dragon : Have you bought and books lately? Do tell! | | 298 | AnnaClaire, February 17 |
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| Dormant: The Green Dragon : Okay, how many of you have made a resolution to read more in the coming year? | | 65 | Vanye, January 2007 |
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... but regard them in the main as reference material to be visited as needed/when needed. I have read The Silmarillion, The Book of Lost Tales vols. 1 & 2 (of the HoMe series) & Unfinished Tales (a stand alone volume of more of the JRRT materials) edited by Christopher of course. I also ... ... Gilbert
The Poisoned Chocolates Case, by Anthony Berkeley
Dreams of Being Eaten Alive, by David Rosenberg
The Food of Death: Fifty-one Tales, by Lord Dunsany
The dinner guests:
Feasting with Panthers, by Leo Bruce
And where one dines:
Blood on the Dining Room ... ... World by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lost World : a Novel by Michael Crichton
The Lost Years by J.M. Dillard
The Book of Lost Tales by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Godforsaken by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro The Lost and the Lurking by Manly Wade Wellman
The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Book of Lost Tales by J.R.R. Tolkien
Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card
The Long Lost Friend by John George Hohman ... the story and the world as he wrote (I don't recommend it to anyone who hated Lord of the Rings but the middle books of The History of Middle-Earth show this process.)
The beloved book I hated was Marion Zimmer Bradley's Mists of Avalon; maybe it's being a historian that put me off ... Thanks for the info, cad. I bought the first two The Book of Lost Tales Vols 1 and 2 as large paperbacks, but I don't have any of the others. I'd prefer hardcover at some point, though. #64 - the bits you've read in SIlmarillion and lost tales were JRR, everything else is Christopher tolkein. Children of Hurin is CTs first attempt at writing an actual novel. He has filled in all the details without editorial comment, in his father's style. Apparently it is pretty good (s ... 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 ... ... 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! I'm reading The Book of Lost Tales I for fun, plus a lot of stuff for school. ... 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 stop working I could do it faster. Vanye
P.S ... ... on the history of Tolkien's fandom over the generations.
The "fanfic" I pretty much skimmed, I'd rather read Tolkien's The Lost Tales, etc.
One poem I liked, it described a man (Tolkien) in a forest, lots of pretty words about trees, then talked about him picking a fruit from the Tree of L ... ... Middle Earth has the most supplementary material to Lord of the Rings, and includes the very first chapter of a sequel.
The Book of Lost Tales Part 1
The Book of Lost Tales 2 Part 2
The Lays of Beleriand
The Shaping of Middle Earth
contain some of his earlier work, including things ...
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