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Have only read the tranlated Chinese version of LOTR, Hobbit and Silmarillion.
If time permits i'd like to read English ones, may have different feels.
Watch the Lord of the Rings film series, the extended versions. And then the Hobbit series if you feel like it.
The books to start with are the Lord of the Rings (3 volumes, all one story), and The Hobbit, which is more of a children's book, but significantly shorter.
But definitely watch LOTR films extended version and then report back here for further instruction.
Thanks, I'll definitely try original ones some day. It must be difficult for native Chinese like me though, with all the long confusing names to memorize and different form of English.Definitely some of Tolkien's poetry, dialogue and descriptions may not be translated that well.
His literary genius is quite something.
He also uses an olden form of English, that is just not used these days, 'whither', 'thither', 'hence', 'thence' and use of grammar considered incorrect or unorthodox by today's standard.
I'm one of of the avid follower of this series..
I studied a lot of books all the books except Adventure of Tom Bombadi..
But I want to add two more..
1.Parma Endorian(Somewhat a Short Essay but useful for newbies)
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2.Atlas of the Middle Earth(If really someone wants to understand entire geography,Battle Plan and Execution etc,this is an essential book.I suggested it to @Nihonjin1051 as far as I remember)
Of course just reading the books are not enough.You've to study anything you can get,Tolkiengateway,lotr.wikia or even various forums on net available.Especially forum,from where you can get excellent unknown information and analysis from some knowledgeable members which you can't find anywhere..
I read the hobbit and LOTR, but I'm ashamed to admit it but I never got around to finishing The Silmarilion. I got through a few pages than life commitments took over.
Has anyone here played the middle earth mod for the total war series?
I am not a huge fan like you @Jungibaaz , but i find the hobbit series quite interesting. Have done a little research about it too. I haven't gotten out of Lord of the rings and Hobbit universe, much to look at.
You can take this image if you want and use it as your DP:
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good read...
Has anyone here played the middle earth mod for the total war series?
I assume you are talking about this mod (http://www.moddb.com/mods/the-fourth-age-total-war).? Absolutely loved it especially when playing Tharbad.
Tolkiens work as a whole is genius although it does annoy me the way he constantly uses terms like "men of the west" as representations of the everything pious and virtuous, and eastern cultures represent evil. I dont know if this was intentional. However if one ignores this east vs west, evil vs good theme, then the level of detail into which Tolkein goes with regards to Middle Earth is phenomenal. I have read several other "medieval fantasy" books such as "A Song of Ice and Fire" aka Game of Thrones, but Martin does not even come close to the level of detail and simple literary genius of Tolkien.