j d worthington
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Bravo, Marky. I'd never looked into The Annotated Hobbit. Perhaps I should pick up a copy of the new edition; I can get it at a discount....
Green said:The Silmarillion is the only other one I've read. I really enjoyed its detached style. There are bits that lag like hell (listing all the different maya or whatever they're called, for example), but then parts of the LotR lagged like hell, too.
If you're interested in the history of the elves, then this is a big fat infodump with your name on it.
I was also just talking with Nesa about Pictures by J. R. R. Tolkien and J. R. R. Tolkien: Artist & Illustrator... interesting stuff. It allows you to see Tolkien's own vision of what much of this was like... and has things like reproductions of those "slashed and burned" pages of the book found in the Chamber of Mazarbul....
When I first finished the LotR, I dashed to the library, eager to find everything else by JRRT, and this was the only one they had, apart from the Hobbit. (This was well before the Silmarillion, the HoME, etc.) It's now hard to find over here - people seem not to donate it to charity shops! - and is high on my list of 'when I have the money, I must really get' books.And there's also the song-cycle The Road Goes Ever On, with Donald Swann, which has text by Tolkien that people might well find interesting...
By the way, jd - talking of Donald Swann, is the partership in comic songs he had with Michael Flanders known over there?