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Worlds Without End Roll-Your-Own Reading Challenge

The Tolkien Reading Challenge

The Tolkien Reading Challenge

I read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings several times, but nothing else. I have not attempted The Silmarillion since I was 17. And as each new volume of J.R.R. Tolkien's unpublished stories and notes hit the bookstores, I've wanted to make the effort to explore those as well. I'm betting there are many of you in our community who have the same experience. So I created this challenge to give us a little push to explore the universe of the person who brought many of us into Fantasy literature and gaming in the first place.

I understand that some of the posthumous work is difficult reading, so I've added the challenge levels. Now you can read any 3, 6, 9, or 12 books. You can reread the The Hobbit and LOTR for the challenge, as I am doing, since I haven't reread the trilogy since about 1983 and my memory has been tainted by the changes in the films, and then move on to the Silmarillion and more.

NEW: I've added Tolkien's biography by Humphrey Carpenter, The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, The Tolkien Reader, Tales from the Perilous Realm, and several of Tolkien's translation works to WWE. So now you can add some of these to your challenge as well.

Here's the link for JRR Tolkien, his editor and son Christopher Tolkien, and his biographer Humphrey Carpenter.

Challenge Details
Genre: Fantasy
Challenge Span: January 2015 – December 2015

Reading Levels
Select your reading level below. You can adjust your level up or down at any time during the challenge.

 Frodo = 3 books + 1 reviews
 Aragorn = 6 books + 3 reviews
 Galadriel = 9 books + 4 reviews
 Gandalf = 12 books + 6 reviews

This challenge has expired. Please have a look at some of our other challenges for something that may interest you.

DrEvilO

DrEvilO

The Book of Lost Tales: Part 1
The Book of Lost Tales: Part 2
The Lays of Beleriand
The Lost Road and Other Writings
The Return of the Shadow
The Treason of Isengard
ManyMoons

ManyMoons

The Book of Lost Tales: Part 1
The Book of Lost Tales: Part 2
The Children of Hurin
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Return of the King
The Two Towers
Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-Earth
2
1
mooncrumble

mooncrumble

The Hobbit
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
spoltz

spoltz

The Book of Lost Tales: Part 1
The Book of Lost Tales: Part 2
The Fall of Arthur
The Fellowship of the Ring
J. R. R. Tolkien:  A Biography
The Lays of Beleriand
The Return of the King
The Silmarillion
Tales From The Perilous Realm
The Tolkien Reader
The Two Towers
Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-Earth
thereddeath

thereddeath

3
2
1
whargoul

whargoul

3
2
1