A Tolkien Reading Plan (within the world of Middle-Earth)

For those students, who might want to pursue further reading and rereading in Tolkien, following a broad chronologically plan within his primary imaginative world:

Beginnings and First Age

  • Ainulindalë and  Valaquenta ( The Silmarillion )
  • The Ambarkanta (HoME vol 4)
  • Quenta Silmarillion ( The Silmarillion )
  • "The Legend of the Awakening of the Quendi" (HoME vol 11 pp. 420-424)
  • "The Flight of the Noldoli" ( The Lays of Beleriand HoME vol 3)
  • "Laws and Customs of the Eldar" ( Morgoth's Ring HoME vol 10)
  • "Athrabeth Finrod ah Andreth" ( Morgoth's Ring HoME vol 10)
  • The Lay of Leithian ( The Lays of Beleriand HoME vol 3)
  • The Lay of the Children of Húrin ( The Lays of Beleriand HoME vol 3)
  • The Wanderings of Hurin ( The War of the Jewels HoME vol 11)
  • The Children of Hurin
  • Narn i Hîn Húrin ( Unfinished Tales)
  • "Of Tuor and His Coming To Gondolin" ( Unfinished Tales)
  • "The Later Annals of Bereliand" (HoME vol 5)
  • The Lhammas "Account of Tonques" (HoME vol 5)
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Second Age

  • Akallabeth (The Silmarillion )
  • Unfinished Tales (Part II)
  • "Tal-Elmar" (The Peoples of Middle-earth HoME vol 12)
  • The Lost Road (HoME vol 5)
  • The Notion Club Papers (Sauron Defeated HoME vol 9)

Third Age and Beginning of the Fourth Age

  • "Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age" (The Silmarillion )
  • "The Disaster of the Gladden Fields," "Cirion and Eorl," Part IV, and "The Quest of Erebor" (Unfinished Tales)
  • The Hobbit
  • The Lord of the Rings
  • "The Hunt for the Ring" and "The Battle of the Fords of Isen" (Unfinished Tales )
  • Epilogue to The Lord of the Rings (Sauron Defeated HoME vol 9)
  • "The New Shadow" (The Peoples of Middle-earth  HoME vol 12)