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#3. Read complete works of JRR Tolkien

(Not yet completed)

"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. For even the very wise cannot see all ends." --Gandalf

 Books by J.R.R. Tolkien:

(red ones denote the ones I have read)

The Primary Works:

 

1. THE SILMARILLION, 1977

2. THE HOBBIT, 1937

3. THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, 1954

4. THE TWO TOWERS, 1955

5. THE RETURN OF THE KING, 1956

The Secondary Works:

  1. THE ADVENTURES OF TOM BOMBADIL, 1990

  2. A MIDDLE ENGLISH VOCABULARY, Oxford, 1922 (textbook)

  3. THE ANNOTATED HOBBIT, annotated by Douglas Anderson, 1988

  4. "Finn and Hengest: The Fragment and the Episode" (collection of essays and papers from Oxford), 1983

  5. BILBO'S LAST SONG, 1990

  6. MR. BLISS, 1983

  7. OLD ENGLISH EXODUS, Clarendon Press, 1980

  8. OLIPHAUNT, 1989

  9. POEMS AND STORIES, 1994

  10. SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT / PEARL / SIR ORFEO, 1975

  11. SMITH OF WOOTTON MAJOR, 1967

  12. FARMER GILES OF HAM (Grafton)

  13. THE TOLKIEN READER, 1966 (Tolkien's Magic Ring, The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son, Tree and Leaf, Farmer Giles of Ham, The Adventures of Tom Bombadil)

  14. TREE AND LEAF, 1964

  15. UNFINISHED TALES, "Leaf by Niggle" [1945]

  16. "Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" [Lecture 1936]

  17. "On Fairy-stories" [Lecture 1939]

  18. "The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorhthelm's Son" [continuation of Anglo-Saxon THE BATTLE OF MALDON]

  19. ROVER RANDOM

Here are some of my favorite pictures 

of Tolkien characters and events.

Eowyn   Frodo   Gandalf   Hobbits

The Lord of the Rings major motion picture coming December, 2001.

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