At A Glance: Our Top 5 Picks For J.R.R Tolkien Books:
The Lord of the Rings
The Hobbit
The Silmarillion
The History of Middle-earth
Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth
Why We Love J.R.R Tolkien
1. Simplicity
Tolkien’s first stories inclu
ding The Hobbit were written for his children and he didn’t exactly write them for the general public. The style in which he wrote them was simple, and the stories were easy to read and follow, elegant, and beautiful. This is the same simplicity he used for The Lord of the Rings and other stories, winning him a lot of fans—both young and old.
2. Originality And Creativity
Creativity is something Tolkien didn’t lack, and he gave middle earth and all its mythical creatures. Now, having made it onto the screens, this world is so believable that you tend to wonder if such a world—full of wonder and magic—never existed.
3. Attention To Detail
To tell the stories that he told, Tolkien had to take his effort and determination to a new level.
He did just that!
The level of detail in his stories instantly induces sparks of imagination and swallows the reader into a world full of mystique, horror, and wonders.
The one ring is an ancient item featured prominently in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings (1954–55).
The Complete List Of J.R.R Tolkien’s Books In Chronological Order Of Publication
English Vocabulary (1922)
Songs for the Philologist (1936)
The Hobbit (1937)
On Fairy Stories (1947)
Farmer Giles of Ham (1949)
The Fellowship of the Ring (1954)
The Two Towers (1954)
The Return of the King (1955)
The Adventures of Tom Bombadil (1961)
The Tolkien Reader (1966)
Smith of Wootton Major (1967)
The Road Goes Ever On (1967)
Leaf By Niggle (1969)
Bilbo’s Last Song (1974)
Sir Gawain, Pearl and Sir Orfeo (1975)
The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth (1975)
The Father Christmas Letters (1976)
The Silmarillion (1977)
Pictures by JRR Tolkien (1979)
Poems and Stories (1980)
Unfinished Tales (1980)
The Letters of JRR Tolkien (1981)
The Old English Exodus (1981)
Mr. Bliss (1982)
Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays (1983)
Finn and Hengest (1983)
The Book of Lost Tales 1 (1983)
The Book of Lost Tales 2 (1984)
The Lays of Beleriand (1985)
The Shaping of Middle Earth (1986)
The Lost Road and Other Writings (1987)
The Return of the Shadow (1988)
The Treason of Isengard (1989)
The War of the Ring (1990)
Sauron Deafeated (1992)
Morgoth’s Ring (1993)
The War of the Jewels (1994)
The Peoples of Middle Earth (1996)
Roverandom (1998)
Beowulf and the Critics (2002)
The Best J.R.R Tolkien Books:
1. The Fellowship Of The Ring (The Lord Of The Rings No.1)
The Fellowship of the Ring
This is the first in the Lord of the Rings series and the story begins about 80 years after the stories in The Hobbit. The Fellowship of the Ring follows Frodo, the Ringbearer, as he embarks on a journey to deliver the One Ring to the only force capable of destroying it: the first of Mount Doom.
The novel was first published in 1954 and had its film version released in 2001. The novel introduced some very important characters including Merry, Sam, and Pippin played—in the 2001 movie—by Dominic Monaghan, Sean Astin, and Billy Boyd, respectively.
2. The Return Of The King (The Lord Of The Rings, No. 3)
The Return of the King
The Return of the King is the final installment in the three-novel Lord of the Rings series. It also served to bring to a conclusion some of the major plotlines in the series that began in The Fellowship of the Ringing. A couple of battles take place to determine the fate of Middle Earth; the story culminates in the destruction of the One Ring and the crowning of Gondor as the new King.
The book was first published in 1955, and its film version was released in 2003.
3. The Hobbit
The Hobbit
The first of Tolkien’s books to be published, The Hobbit, introduced Middle Earth and within this world were Hobbits, orcs, and other beings.
This classic was initially written for Tolkien’s children, so it instantly became a fan-favorite among the younger, fantasy-loving readers. This fantastical story also introduced Bilbo Baggins to the world. Bilbo, a Hobbit, and a couple of dwarves go on an adventure-filled mission to reclaim their homeland from Smaug, a dragon whose only desire is to guard the treasure he stole from the dwarves.
The Hobbit was published in 1937, then adapted as a trilogy, with An Unexpected Journey (2012), The Desolation of Smaug (2013), and The Battle of the Five Armies (2014), making up the series.
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