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Welcome to the official Tolkien & Middle Earth Appreciation and discussion thread :legend:

Follow this thread to stay tuned.

> Here You can talk about all Tolkien's works regarding The Middle Earth from the beginning of time and the birth of the Ainur till the destruction of The Ring Of Power, the leaving of the ring bearers or even the beginning of the 4th age.

> You can also discuss here the Peter Jackson movies of The Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit.

> Last but not least you can also post here fan art or other pieces of art regarding Middle Earth

J.R.R Tolkien:

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Tolkien's work of Middle Earth

~ The Hobbit
~ The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy
~ The Silmarillion
~ Unfinished Tales

~ The Childen Of Hurin

The History Of Middle Earth*

 

The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien**

 

(The History Of Middle Earth is a relatively rare collection and it mainly contains older and earlier versions of the history of middle earth)

(** Tolkien's letters collection doesn't only contain letters about Middle Earth but also about his life and some of his other works)

 

The Hobbit:

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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, is a fantasy novel and children's book by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. It was published on 21 September 1937 to wide critical acclaim, being nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the New York Herald Tribune for best juvenile fiction. The book remains popular and is recognized as a classic in children's literature.
Set in a time "Between the Dawn of Færie and the Dominion of Men", The Hobbit follows the quest of home-loving hobbit Bilbo Baggins to win a share of the treasure guarded by the dragon, Smaug. Bilbo's journey takes him from light-hearted, rural surroundings into more sinister territory. The story is told in the form of an episodic quest, and most chapters introduce a specific creature, or type of creature, of Tolkien's Wilderland. By accepting the disreputable, romantic, fey and adventurous side of his nature and applying his wits and common sense, Bilbo gains a new level of maturity, competence and wisdom.[3] The story reaches its climax in the Battle of Five Armies, where many of the characters and creatures from earlier chapters re-emerge to engage in conflict.
Personal growth and forms of heroism are central themes of the story. Along with motifs of warfare, these themes have led critics to view Tolkien's own experiences during World War I as instrumental in shaping the story. The author's scholarly knowledge of Germanic philology and interest in fairy tales are often noted as influences.

More Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Middle-earth



The Lord Of The Rings trilogy:

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The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel written by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. The story began as a sequel to Tolkien's 1937 children's fantasy novel The Hobbit, but eventually developed into a much larger work. It was written in stages between 1937 and 1949, much of it during World War II. It is the second best-selling novel ever written, with over 150 million copies sold.[2]
The title of the novel refers to the story's main antagonist, the Dark Lord Sauron,[note 1] who had in an earlier age created the One Ring to rule the other Rings of Power as the ultimate weapon in his campaign to conquer and rule all of Middle-earth. From quiet beginnings in the Shire, a hobbit land not unlike the English countryside, the story ranges across northwest Middle-earth, following the course of the War of the Ring through the eyes of its characters, the hobbits Frodo Baggins, Samwise "Sam" Gamgee, Meriadoc "Merry" Brandybuck and Peregrin "Pippin" Took, but also the hobbits' chief allies and travelling companions: the Men Aragorn, a Ranger of the North and Boromir, a Captain of Gondor; Gimli, a Dwarf warrior; Legolas, an Elven prince; and Gandalf, a Wizard.
The work was initially intended by Tolkien to be one volume of a two-volume set, the other to be The Silmarillion, but this idea was dismissed by his publisher.[4][5] For economic reasons The Lord of the Rings was published in three volumes over the course of a year from 29 July 1954 to 20 October 1955. The three volumes were titled The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King. Structurally, the novel is divided internally into six books, two per volume, with several appendices of background material included at the end of the third volume. Some editions combine the entire work into a single volume. The Lord of the Rings has since been reprinted numerous times and translated into many languages.

Tolkien's work has been the subject of extensive a--lysis of its themes and origins. Although a major work in itself, the story was only the last movement of a larger epic Tolkien had worked on since 1917,[7] in a process he described as mythopoeia.[citation needed] Influences on this earlier work, and on the story of The Lord of the Rings, include philology, mythology, religion and the author's distaste for the effects of industrialization, as well as earlier fantasy works and Tolkien's experiences in World War I. The Lord of the Rings in its turn is considered to have had a great effect on modern fantasy; the impact of Tolkien's works is such that the use of the words "Tolkienian" and "Tolkienesque" have been recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary.

More Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings



The Silmarillion:

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The Silmarillion /sɪlməˈrɪlɨÉ™n/ is a collection of J. R. R. Tolkien's mythopoeic works, edited and published posthumously by his son, Christopher Tolkien, in 1977, with assistance from Guy Gavriel Kay, who later became a noted fantasy writer. The Silmarillion, along with J. R. R. Tolkien's other works, forms an extensive, though incomplete, narrative that describes the universe of Eä in which are found the lands of Valinor, Beleriand, Númenor, and Middle-earth within which The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings take place.
After the success of The Hobbit, and prior to the publication of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien's publisher requested a sequel to The Hobbit, and Tolkien sent them an early draft of The Silmarillion. But through a misunderstanding, the publisher rejected the draft without fully reading it, with the result that Tolkien began work on "A Long Expected Party", the first chapter of what he described at the time as "a new story about Hobbits", which became The Lord of the Rings.[2]
The Silmarillion comprises five parts. The first part, Ainulindalë, tells of the creation of Eä, the "world that is". Valaquenta, the second part, gives a description of the Valar and Maiar, the supernatural powers in Eä. The next section, Quenta Silmarillion, which forms the bulk of the collection, chronicles the history of the events before and during the First Age, including the wars over the Silmarils which gave the book its title. The fourth part, Akallabêth, relates the history of the Downfall of Númenor and its people, which takes place in the Second Age. The final part, Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age, is a brief account of the circumstances which led to and were presented in The Lord of the Rings.

The five parts were initially separate works, but it was the elder Tolkien's express wish that they be published together. Because J. R. R. Tolkien died before he finished revising the various legends, Christopher gathered material from his father's older writings to fill out the book. In a few cases, this meant that he had to devise completely new material in order to resolve gaps and inconsistencies in the narrative.

More Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silmarillion



The Unfinished Tales:

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Unfinished Tales (full title Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth) is a collection of stories and essays by J. R. R. Tolkien that were never completed during his lifetime, but were edited by his son Christopher Tolkien and published in 1980.
Unlike The Silmarillion, for which the narrative fragments were modified to connect into a consistent and coherent work, the Unfinished Tales are presented as Tolkien left them, with little more than names changed (the author having had a confusing habit of trying out different names for a character while writing a draft). Thus some of these are incomplete stories, while others are collections of information about Middle-earth. Each tale is followed by a long series of notes explaining inconsistencies and obscure points.
As with The Silmarillion, Christopher Tolkien edited and published Unfinished Tales before he had finished his study of the materials in his father's archive.[citation needed] Unfinished Tales provides more detailed information about characters, events and places mentioned only briefly in The Lord of the Rings. Versions of such tales including the origins of Gandalf and the other Istari (Wizards), the death of Isildur and the loss of the One Ring in the Gladden Fields, and the founding of the kingdom of Rohan help expand knowledge about Middle-earth.
The commercial success of Unfinished Tales demonstrated that the demand for Tolkien's stories several years after his death was not only still present, it was growing. Encouraged by the result, Christopher Tolkien began to embark upon the more ambitious twelve-volume work entitled The History of Middle-earth which encompasses nearly the entire corpus of Tolkien's writings about Middle-earth.

More Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfinished_Tales

 

 

The Children Of Hurin:

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The Children of Húrin is an epic fantasy novel which forms the completion of a tale by J. R. R. Tolkien. He wrote the original version of the story in the late 1910s, revised it several times later, but did not complete it before his death in 1973. His son, Christopher Tolkien, edited the manuscripts to form a consistent narrative, and published it in 2007 as an independent work. The story has the structure of an ancient Greek tragedy. The book comes with amazing illuatrations made by Alan Lee,

More Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children_of_H%C3%BArin

 

 

The History Of Middle Earth:

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The History of Middle-earth is a 12-volume series of books published between 1983 and 1996 that collect and a--lyse material relating to the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, compiled and edited by his son, Christopher Tolkien. The series shows the development over time of Tolkien's conception of Middle-earth as a fictional place with its own peoples, languages, and history, from his earliest notions of a "mythology for England" through to the development of the stories that make up The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings. It is not a "history of Middle-earth" in the sense of being a chronicle of events in Middle-earth written from an in-universe perspective. In 2000–01, the twelve volumes were republished in three limited edition omnibus volumes. Non-deluxe editions of the three volumes were published in 2002.

 

More Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_Middle-earth

 

 

The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien:

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The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien is a selection of J. R. R. Tolkien's letters published in 1981, edited by Tolkien's biographer Humphrey Carpenter assisted by Christopher Tolkien. The selection contains 354 letters, dating between October 1914, when Tolkien was an undergraduate at Oxford, and August 29, 1973, four days before his death.

 

More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Letters_of_J._R._R._Tolkien

 

 

 

Welcome to the epicest and most perfect world a human mind has ever created. A world that you can always travel whenever you can't bear your own reality.

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Didymus

Omg I actually.. got chills quickly looking through this :giveup:

 

I love you for making this :heart: Thank you so much! Following this thread and spending all my time here :spin:

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Diamond Heart

omg yassss

LOTR are legit, cinematic perfection  :legend:

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I can only post one emoticon to describe my thoughts about Tolkien and Middle Earth.

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LEGEND!!!

:nooo: he made it feel as if it's all real, like ancient history long forgotten.

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The Silmarillion is like the Bible, I never managed to finish it though, it's too heavy a read and when I took a break I forgot everything and all the characters and I didn't want to start from the beginning again :spin:

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PoshLife

omg I didn't know about The Silmarillion. That sounds freaking fascinating!

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VforVendetta

omg I didn't know about The Silmarillion. That sounds freaking fascinating!

It's Tolkien's best work ever. It's a masterpiece. :legend:

The Silmarillion is like the Bible, I never managed to finish it though, it's too heavy a read and when I took a break I forgot everything and all the characters and I didn't want to start from the beginning again :spin:

Bible who?  :worship2:

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En_Sabah_Nur

The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and ALL of thy above Are Pure LEGENDARY!!!!!!!!!! I grew up on these books, and I am obsessed with the movies!!! :)

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omg I didn't know about The Silmarillion. That sounds freaking fascinating!

It's literally the Bible of Middle Earth, starting with the creation if everything (like the Genesis). It's so epic :legend: definitely not a light read though.

I actually read some of Tolkien's letter and he writes Middle Earth as literally being part of the history of the world and not an alternate universe or whatever.

It's Tolkien's best work ever. It's a masterpiece. :legend:

Bible who?  :worship2:

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PoshLife

It's literally the Bible of Middle Earth, starting with the creation if everything (like the Genesis). It's so epic :legend: definitely not a light read though.

I actually read some of Tolkien's letter and he writes Middle Earth as literally being part of the history of the world and not an alternate universe or whatever.

yeah I was reading a more detailed description of "the history of Middle Earth" and it sounds like he wanted to create a mythology for England. It's amazing how he kept on this for decades - I can barely stay interested in a project for more than a few weeks :laughga:

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VforVendetta

Omg I actually.. got chills quickly looking through this :giveup:

I love you for making this :heart: Thank you so much! Following this thread and spending all my time here :spin:

OMG you hyped me as well for some reason. :flop:

yeah I was reading a more detailed description of "the history of Middle Earth" and it sounds like he wanted to create a mythology for England. It's amazing how he kept on this for decades - I can barely stay interested in a project for more than a few weeks :laughga:

For almost his whole life actually. Till his last days he was working on it.
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yeah I was reading a more detailed description of "the history of Middle Earth" and it sounds like he wanted to create a mythology for England. It's amazing how he kept on this for decades - I can barely stay interested in a project for more than a few weeks :laughga:

Indeed :yes: wish I was more like him, I love fiction and all this creative stuff :flutter: such an amazing mind. And I don't care what people say I think Peter Jackson did the best he could to translate his works for the modern audience and remain as faithful as he could.

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Chromatislaps

omg I didn't know about The Silmarillion. That sounds freaking fascinating!

Silmarillion is basically about the creation of the world, and how Morgoth (the Dark god, the superior to Sauron) tried numerous times to annihalate it together with his accomplice Sauron. With the peak of the story being the downfall of Númenor an island between the realm of Valinor (where the gods and elves reside) and Middle earth and Beleriand. The downfall of Númenor is kinda Tolkiens version of Atlantis, but then with Sauron being the trigger of the downfall. If they ever manage to make a movie out of it, it will slay 100000000x the Lord Of The Rings tbh :legend:

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heavymlover

I have a lot of respect for Tolkien for creating such a wide and complex mythology in the 20th century. To be completely honest, I'm not a big fan of his work because I personally find it too heavy and sometimes even tedious to read.

 

But don't get me wrong. He is a fantastic writer and his world is fascinating. Just recently I re-read the Fellowship.

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