Tolkien Books In Chronological Order. The author had spent almost 10 years just writing the narrative of the book. Some of the text will be familiar from extracts and references within the other tolkien books you already read, but here the entire story has been presented in its complete form.
Silmarillion first) should think about the classical literary concept of in medias res, the composition strategy adopted by writers from homer to shakespeare. Bilbo baggins was just another hobbit living a comfortable life in his hole in the ground. The order is the hobbit, the lord of the rings, [the adventures of tom bombadil if you wish to read the poems], the silmarillion and unfinished tales (you can swap those two over if you want to read the longer numenor tales before the whole history of the silmarillion) and then the histories.
The children of húrin, beren and lúthien and the fall of gondolin
Bilbo baggins was just another hobbit living a comfortable life in his hole in the ground. Tolkien is almost beyond reproach for some literary critics because of the strength of his body of work, with some of the best books from the author’s bibliography including: The text of the children of húrin is in part compiled from these extant texts (parts of the silmarillion , unfinished tales , the book of lost tales , the lays of beleriand , etc), and particularly that which appears in. It’s worth it, i promise!