Reading Tolkien's Unfinished Tales is kind of like reading the made-up wikipedia for some fantasy world, tales told at different scales and details that were only hinted at in the Silmarillion and Lord of the Rings.
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Reading it in story form gives more of the "clicking this link and hmm what's this BOOM explanation". Actual encyclopedias are a bit too much back and forth with the pages 😅
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I have an older edition of Day's illustrated Tolkien encyclopedia and I definitely just read through it 😂 there's so much in there!
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actually I just came across it while packing!
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if you didn't know already, David Day has written quite a few works on and around Middle-earth and its creation. here are some others I acquired just a couple months ago:
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“The Atlas of Middle Earth” by Karen Wynn Fonstad is highly recommended if you like cartography! It's really well done and highly detailed. A cool accompaniment to the official maps.
it's so thorough! she plotted out exact progress per day on maps and things like that — it's totally incredible and 100% worth having
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