In volumes ten and eleven of The History of Middle-earth, Christopher Tolkien recounts from the original texts the evolution of his father's work o...
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Dec 02, 2011
Katrin
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I'm very torn with giving stars to this book. If I'd rate only the content by J.R.R. Tolkien and the work Christopher has done, his passion and his patience, I would give 5 stars without even thinking about it. But this book was difficult to read. First of all there are many cross-references which can be best understood while having the Silmarillion and the Unfinished Tales next to you. Reading it this way would acquire a hell lot of time and interrupt the reading at every page. I was simply not
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Dec 15, 2011
Michael
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Great stuff- much more meaty than I anticipated, being the 11th volume in a 12 volume collection. I wrote about the experience of reading all 12 of those volumes here: http://soundscryer.com/2011/06/13/christ... (part 1) and here: http://soundscryer.com/2011/12/02/christ... (part 2). Much more detail about the series in those two pieces.
Mar 18, 2011
Jim
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I think anyone who gets this far in the series has earned the right to skim most of Christopher's comments while looking for anything new from J.R.R. I've had enough of "My father used a blue pen so this must have been written in 1959."
I can see a light at the end of the tunnel... only one more volume to go!
I can see a light at the end of the tunnel... only one more volume to go!
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