Christopher Tolkien, JRR's son, has been putting out volumes and volumes of book which are all under, I believe, "The History of Middle Earth" title. The first two were The Books of Lost Tales which had a lot of his unfinished stories... these have been followed by basically all his notes. They are really, really interesting. Anyone who is really interested in Middle Earth should check them out. Most bookstores carry at least volume 1 & 2 if not more.
Mellian, I'm a Tolkien fan!!
Can you tell?!
I discovered him around 8th grade... and have been reading him ever since. IMO, he's the best. The Ring Trilogy is up there in my 3 all time favorite books list... right next to AS Byatt's Possession and Frank Herbert's Dune series... ok... so I'm counting series as books.
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