Talk:The History of The Hobbit

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Does the author of this work intend to bring a similar work on The Lord of the Rings (i.e. The History of the Lord of the Rings)? This would be a fascinating volume too; but to achieve a detailed result it would have to occupy several large volumes. Or does a work of this sort already exist? I am aware of Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull's The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion, which is very good, but perhaps a even more detailed analytical work would be desireable too. Any answers? Eam91 29/12/2007, GMT.

There is already such a work -- and indeed, it occupies 12 volumes. Published since 1984 under the editorship of Christopher Tolkien, The History of Middle-earth gives definitive shape to what would become the Silmarillion, the Lord of the Rings, and the Narn i Hin Hurin. The originals are hard to find, a set costly, but in the UK at least HarperCollins has re-released them as a smaller number of thicker volumes. Clevelander96 (talk) 03:39, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
More precisely, The History of The Lord of the Rings covers the LotR drafts, and is about 3.5 volumes of HoME. Carcharoth (talk) 03:00, 2 January 2008 (UTC)