history of middle earth

I didn't add Battle of the Powers to the list because there were only Valar and Maiar in Battle of the Powers, not Elves and Men. 1-DAGOR DAGORATH 2-WAR OF WRATH 3-NIRNAETH ARNOEDIAD 4-DAGOR BRAGOLLACH 5-WAR OF THE LAST ALLIANCE 6-BATTLE OF THE PELENNOR FIELDS 7-FALL OF GONDOLIN 8-BATTLE...

I asked the artificial intelligence named Poe who is the greatest swordsman in the entire Legendarium and Middle Earth. Turin was first in the ranking. And the artificial intelligence said that Turin was the greatest in the ranking in its opinion. And it listed reasons such as Turin killing...

What a happy find. "The Later Silmarillion" Part 1 - HoME Vol. 10, Morgoth's Ring "The Later Silmarillion" Part 2 - HoME Vol. 11, The War of the Jewels and: The Peoples of Middle Earth, HoME Vol. 12 All will be released on 6/13/2023 in Kindle format. Quick research will now available to...

There's tons of artwork out there but I figured maybe we could use this thread to share some of our favorites that we've come across by other artists. If you post any, try to give credit to the original artist in your post. I'll start, I found this on Reddit this morning of Turin vs Glaurung...

I had resigned myself to buying the three volume History of Middle-earth (HOME) books despite them apparently being quite cumbersome and on extremely thin paper and thus quite a trial to read. The original 13 volume series is other than a few volumes well out of my comfortable price range...

When professor Tolkien wrote his opus magni, it was his regret that many other cultures had deep mythological traditions, but his own England was largely devoid of mythic epics that drove his pen. His original intent was to provide a legendarium to what he considered to be a blank history of...

I mean in terms of additional or supplementary narrative? I have read excerpts and I see Morgoth’s Ring quoted a lot. I’m interested in things like the Statute of Finwe and Miriel, Finrod’s conversation with Andreth etc. Presently I own both books of Lost Tales and Return of the Shadow. I take...

I found out about this on Reddit https://www.tolkienguide.com/uploads/newbb/10_5eef7c72e5079.jpg

So I have ordered morgoth's ring and I am also getting The War of the Jewels. So my question is this, do these books make the book of lost tales meaningless? it seems to me they do. It seems volumes 1-4 of the history would not really be needed as to the history of the sillmarillion. What do you...

So I am going to start reading the histories of middle earth and have read from a few sources that Tolkien originally had much more of the hobbits in the Lord of the Rings. But reviewers such as C.S Lewis thought it to much and he took some of those sections out wishing later that he had not...

I am having trouble deciding what I should actually do since if I decide to buy The Complete History Of Middle Earth which is usually $360 but is on special for $250 at the moment yet I don't plan on getting it right now or do you think should I just buy the 12 books seperatky in hardback...

The Index for History of Middle Earth is finally getting a hardcover edition. It's only been available in the UK as a paperback and the US via Import. The History of Middle-Earth: Index (Hardcover) by Christopher Tolkien (Author) Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (4...