tolkien books

Help I have already read The Silmarillion (and The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit) and I just bought The Book of Lost Tales 1 and 2 and Unfinished Tales and I have The Shaping of Middle Earth. What order do I read them in? I'm not sure which to read first. Could you put these in order...

... does Tolkien discuss Hobbits in other books besides The Hobbit or LOTR?... I know there is the story of Ganalf, the Dwarves, and Bilbo in Unfinished Tales... is there anything else about them in HOME or others?...

I have read the Lord of the rings last year and i loved it. i loved it so much i went out and bought the Silmirilian or however u spell it. I also saw a few other books of his that delt with middle earth. what are they and do they explain a lot of fuzzy area's in LOTR?

Just start naming all the modern day animals that are mentioned, then we will compile a list.

Come on ttfers! Let's kick the non-Tolkien books off the shelf on this poll! http://info.jefferson.lib.co.us/teen/TRW.html (click on the big purple vote button)

:confused: OK, I just read the hobbit, and I loved the story. So, now that I read this, I thought that I was going to read the Lord or the rings trilogy. However, I now see that there are many other books that tell about the stories of middle-Earth. e.g. The Silmarillion, The...