The Writings of JRR Tolkien

This part of the site is dedicated to JRR Tolkien. A great man who wrote lots of great books! Below are pictures of some of the books and a little bit of writing explaining briefly what the book are about and hopefully will encourage you to read them!

The Hobbit

This is probably the best place for the Tolkien virgin to start! This is a childrens tale that is as good to read for adults as small kids!

Its basically a simple tale of a Hobbit that goes on an adventure with a group of dwarves to find some treasure that just happens to be guarded by a dragon!!





The Lord of the Rings

This is in my opinion the greatest book of all time! It gets a lot of bad press for being a "fantasy" book and having creatures like Elves and Orcs but as anyone that has read it knows it goes so much deeper than that!

Its basically a Good vs Evil tale set in the past when Elves, Dwarves, Orcs, Troll and even Hobbits roamed the lands! If you have never read this book then get up off your ass and read it! NOW!!





The Silmarillion

This is another great book. Much much more complex that the other and also written in a different style to Tolkiens other stuff.

This book reads more like the bible than a proper story! But dont let that put you off!! Instead of Adam and Eve you get battles between the gods! Instead of Moses crossing the parted sea you get huge and bloody battles as the Elves struggle against the fallen god Melkor!

The Silmarillion is set many thousands of years before the events of The Lord of the Rings. It tells the story of creation and how Melkor becomes greedy and wants power in the world. When the elves awake and the Valar (or gods) befriend them Melkor is taken prisioner by the other Valar so that he can not cause them any harm. When they free him he ends up stealing the Silmarils (beautiful light filled gems) from Feanor who vows to take them back!

As before if you havent read this book then read it as soon as possible!








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