A review by kimmysanders
Histories of Middle-Earth 5-Book Box Set by J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien

5.0

I wholly understand that not everyone is even into The Lord of the Rings series, much less what amounts to the related ephemera. However, if you are, as I am, a deeply unashamed Tolkien dork, then these are a must-have. These are the first five, which deal with the creation and cosmology of Middle Earth itself, and not the actual writing of the books. Perfect for the sort of nutbar like myself who would really like to convince themselves that the world could exist. You know.

Standouts are The Fall of Gondolin in Lost Tales Vol. 2, the whole of the Lays of Beleriand, and the etymologies in The Lost Road, for students of that kind of thing.