Title: Lord of the Rings stands without this volume.
Review: These stories were written as the history of Middle Earth, and are fascinating in LotR precisely because they are never told completely, like the books described by Borges that never existed. Be content with LotR-- a 20th century masterpiece! Let these tales remain mysterious creatures of the woods, rather than jarred specimens in a biology room... by not reading them.
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