Title: Immensely difficult to read
Review: Am I the only one who doesn't think this book is the best one ever written? It's not the stories, anyone interested enough in the world of Tolkien will want to know what actually happened in the first and second era, but the style of writing is impossible! I have managed, purely out of my enormous interest in Middle Earth and its inhabitants, to wrestle myself through this book once; the second time I tried I couldn't even reach page 10.This book is clearly a collection of notes which Tolkien made about his world's history, which have never been rewritten in a pleasantly readable style, and which have never been checked to keep things consistent, as there are many given facts that differ from given facts in other parts of the book.In short: only read this book if you are really, really interested in the history of Middle Earth, otherwise it's impossible to get through.
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