[JameRetief]

Your Tolkien Virgin Ping!

Read along with a Tolkien Virgin as he discovers and comments on the history of Middle Earth as he reads it for the first time.  These articles start with The Silmarillion, they journey through The Hobbit and finish with Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King.  At the pace of 2 articles per week (Mondays and Fridays) the articles will wrap up about the same time that the final movie of the Lord Of The Rings story is released. 

If anyone would like for me to ping them directly when I post the Tolkien Virgin articles or my Daily Tolkien articles let me know. I hope that you enjoy them!

[JameRetief]

The Tolkien Virgin articles:

1) Pre-amble and The Ainulindalë

You can find the latest Daily Tolkien article (along with links to the previous articles) here:

The men who would be Steward by Michael Martinez

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Ring Ping!!

[Maigret]

Thanks for starting this, I really look forward to following the articles/comments - though for the moment I can't start the Silmarillion since I'm reading the trilogy and just finished Two Towers last night - what a stinker that Tolkien was for cliffhangers though! I'm dying here having to do so much today before I can start The Return of the King!

I'm also very glad I hadn't read these till now, I think I wouldn't have appreciated them as much.