About to embark on a reading journey! Need some info PLEASE!

You might find this link helpful. Scroll down on the page and on the left hand side you'll see FAQ's. They'll tell you in what order to read the books. .....http://www.tolkiensociety.org/index.html....... I have no affiliation with this site, it's just an informative site for Tolkien and his works. Have fun!

I have just finished the Harry Potter series and loved absolutely it all. My daughter has the Beedle The Bard book, but I am not sure if I will read that one or not. I read the whole Lord Of The Rings series about ten years ago for the first time and have all of the books and the movies as well. I saw the movies each time on the first day that each was released. They are awesome. I have read the books and seen the movies many times over the years! The LOTR series does start with the Hobbit. It introduces you to The Ring and some of the characters. You can then buy the LOTR in one big thick book or in the 3 books, The Fellowship Of The Ring, The Two Towers and The Return Of The King. I have the big thick version! If you want to then get into all of the history of the ring and the races of people, dwarves, elves etc... Then you can get The Silmarillion. LOTR was initially intended by Tolkien to be one volume of a two-volume set along with The Silmarillion, however the publisher decided to omit the second volume and instead published LOTR as three books rather than one, for economic reasons. This I have not read as it is pretty intense reading from what I was told and not really a necessary read to get the story. But if you are a very good reader and can handle the complicated mind of JRR Tolkien, then you should read it for sure!

hi dloveli wish you could talk to my son he is a lord of the rings fan all the way through all the books. Another book of a series by CS lewis is the Lion and the Wardrobe get that too and you will enjoy reading it. I saw the movie,it was just wonderful. the library will help you to get the books in the right order and Advise you on all things Tolkein so let them show you the ropes, they love to help, I know as I used to work in a library for twenty odd years.he he.Also a HItchhikers guide to the Galaxy those are really fun, all his series.

The Hobbit was published first, then Lord of the Rings, then the Silmarillion followed by a bunch of books with fragments, etc. I'd read them in that order and then decide if you're interested in the other stuff. It's rather scholarly, most of it.

If you are going for all the books on Middle Earth, my suggestion for how to read them would be The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings and then Silmarillion. If you like the Silmarillion, then you could go for some of all the books that Tolkiens son has put together. I like Unfinished Tales best, and Lays of Beleriand. Lost Tales 1 and 2 were quite good too, some of the other ones were a bit too much for me. It is very much about how Tolkien wrote, many examples of drafts he didn't use. Farmer Giles of Ham was funny though, and also Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Roverandom. Roverandom hasn't anything to do with Middle Earth, it's about a dog, but I thought it was cute. Also the Father Christmas letters, they're also cute, and has lots of Tolkien's drawings in them.

How about TWILIGHT SAGA,there's fiction and love in it,I have just finished all of them, even the draft MIDNIGHT SUN!It's about love between vampire and a human girl,hope you will like it.

I had only started to read your discussion when the title Lord of the Rings entered my mind. What an adventure you are in for, I, who never read a book more than once have read that series 3 time. I encourage you on your start of these wonderful books. Enjoy