11.28.2007
The Book of Lost Tales 2
by J.R.R. Tolkien (ed. Christopher Tolkien), 340 pgs (excluding Appendix & Index), paperback ('84 edition)Series: The Histories of Middle Earth book 2; prequel to The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Overall Grade: C-ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Again, you have to be a freakin' Tolkien nut to find earlier drafts of stories from the Silmarillion interesting. Even I struggle, a lot, to care. Hint: this is not a bedtime book - unless you suffer from insomnia. And famous authors should put a clause in their wills about their drafts and scribblings going to a museum or library or something so scholars can have at them but their children can not try to earn posthumous royalty money by publishing more stuff. :gag:
Labels: genre: fantasy, genre: fiction, media: book, series: Histories of Middle Earth, series: Lord of the Rings