A review by vulturetime
The War of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien

3.5

The thing is for me, since The Lord of the Rings is a finished story, I'm not super invested in seeing all the different versions of how it could have been play out. It was nice to read the excerpts because I haven't reread The Lord of the Rings in a while and the process of writing the series is interesting, but to me it just all feels very, very long. It's not necessarily contained to this book, but the fact that the History of the Lord of the Rings is four books in total. Also, if I wanted to get the feeling of reading the trilogy by reading multiple books, I would have just read the trilogy again. So it was interesting to read but unless you're really into The Lord of the Rings specifically, then I wouldn't necessarily recommend.