Your favourite Middle-earth story

[Casual Tactician]

What about posting our favourite Middle Earth storys?

May they be original J.R.R. Tolkine stories, P.J. films or otherwise.


One of my favourite books is the "The Children of Hurin". I can't even remember en detail what it was about. But I know, that reading it, influenced my life very much.

[Nilyion Landuvalin]

MyFavorite Book: The Silmarillion. I read it 3 times. Sorry for my English.

[webba84]

Book of Lost Tales 2 for me, especially the fall of Gondolin. The battle of Minas Tirith in Return of the King comes a close second.

[Aikanár]

It's in the name

[Jagmodo]

Hmmm, quite a difficult question… I like it all but up-close and personal feel of the LOTR is something special. You can almost feel desperation of the situation The Fellowship is in.

Special place for me has the Battle of the Helm’s Deep and Frodo and Sam at the Mount Doom. Well, and the Pelennor Fields and… Plus, there are all the background information that makes the world even more vivid. Silmarillion has epic stories, true; but the way they are written – like a history book, makes them (or rather us, readers) somewhat devoid of deeper insight that we get in LOTR.

Up close comes Akallabêth (the fall of Númenor) from the Silmarillion.

[Feanaro Curufinwe]

It is Middle-earth, dammit!

[Nehcrum]

Heh, nice timing.

I was rooting around in my library and came upon a long forgotten book.
"Stories of middle-earth" or something (it's title is in swedish, so translation may be completely off based on what translation was first done to swedish etc).
Any comments on that? Is it worth reading or is it one of those collections of short stories that were given out just to capitalize on the Tolkien name?
(Thinking of the Frank Herbert's Dune saga, and his greedy kids)

[Jagmodo]

Stories of Middle-earth doesn’t ring a bell. It might be Unfinished Tales (of Númenor and Middle-earth).

If so, it’s a very good book, definitely worth reading if you want to know more about Tuor, Galadriel and Celeborn, Númenor, Istari, Palantíri, Drúedain, the backstory behind Hobbit and so on… Narn i Hîn Húrin part of the book is basically the same as the standalone The Children of Húrin, so if you have read it you may skip that part. If you haven’t - great, you have two books for the price of one!

[Lanciarius_90]

The Children of Hurin, story about Turin Turambar.

[slew-foot devil]

The Hobbit! A well-written children's book, with all the wonders and horrors of a well-written children's book, with the shadows of a huge, magical, unexplored world beyond its scope, with a fine humor, a brave melancholy and a wise innocence to it.
My favourite parts are Beorn, Bilbo's fight with the spiders and, of course, of course, Riddles in the Dark.

Let's just, like, not talk about the films. (Unless maybe about the parts with more del Toro than Jackson to them. Maybe.)

[CountMRVHS]

I like The Hobbit and the Fellowship of the Ring a lot lately.

Actually, though, some of my favorite stories are from the appendices. That's where you hear about some of the early history of Gondor and the Northmen of Rhovanion. Great stuff!