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    <body><![CDATA[Barely worth reading, even if I did struggle through this and part 2. Too much Tolkien Jnr., who in my not so very humble opinion couldn't write himself out of a box, and not enough Tolkien Snr., who could.<br/><br/>I went no further in the books cobbled together by Tolkien Jnr. after volume 2 of Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55737511">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's really impossible to rate this book. If you are a hardcore Tolkien fan, I think you'll love it. If you thought The Silmarillion was a difficult read, you'll probably want to skip this one.<br/><br/>Basically, this book is a printing of Tolkein's early drafts of tales that eventually came to c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13500904">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[More of a scholarly read than a strictly fictional one. This is a heavily-annotated earlier version of what eventually became the Silmarillion. The interest is mostly in seeing how the work developed, though there are a few places where this early draft is much more thorough than the later notes Chr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3861398">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fun and interesting if you're into Middle Earth enough to dedicate the time to it, but it is dry and literary, not fun and story-like as the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings were. Fascinating stuff if you can make it through it. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm still reading this book. In some ways, I like it much better than the 3 star rating would indicate. Still, the book has a lot of 1st draft qualities, and feels artificial, especially compared with LOTR, and even the Silmarillion.<br/><br/>What makes it fascinating is to see the textual variant...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2780647">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[All of the supplemental books to the LoTR give interesting back story to the world Tolkein created.  The individual parts in the book are interesting to greater or lesser degrees.]]></body>
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    <review id="40886865">
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, I ain’t gonna lie to ya; this is a really tough book to read.  As I read the reviews of this book that have already been posted I feel a bit like a broken record but, this book is really just for very die-hard Tolkien fans.  It’s not easy to follow sometimes and Christopher Tolkien’s com...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40886865">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is some of Tolkien's driest material. I love the stories, but they were obviously not ready for publication when Tolkien died in 1973. This is only for those who enjoyed <em>The Silmarillion</em>.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[More histories from Professor T. Best to read the Silmarillion first. If you like that then this will be a nice treat for you. If you didn't don't bother.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The stories in this book were great, but the way the book presented the stories was just too &quot;difficult&quot; for me to read.  I enjoy free flowing stories, but there was just too many interruptions during the stories that it caused me to lose my focus on numerous occassions.  The synopsis part...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29963041">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good look into the history of Middle Earth. Would be more enjoyable as a book without commentary from Christopher Tolkien.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the first of a 12-book series written by JRR Tolkien's son, Christopher Tolkien.  After his father died, his son collected and studied both his father's published and unpublished works, and decided to organize them into a readable collection, complete with explanations and footnotes.  For an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22088262">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A little hard to read, but fascinating. The next time through is bound to be better.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Definitely a must for the starving Tolkienite! ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Phenomenal portrait of the creation of a mythos. Brilliant even if daunting. Tolkien's mind was extraordinary.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book before I was familiar with Tolkien's writing style. So it was a little difficult for me to get through. If I read it again now after having read <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34.The_Fellowship_of_the_Ring_The_Lord_of_the_Rings_Part_1_" title="The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1) by J.R.R. Tolkien">The Lord of the Rings</a> trilogy I would be fine and probably find it interesting.<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26755031">more...</a>]]></body>
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