What stories are in the Unfinished Tales?

Tales include alternate accounts of the origins of Gandalf and the Wizards, the death of Isildur and the loss of the One Ring in the Gladden Fields, and the founding of the Kingdom of Rohan. Of particular note is the tale of Tar-Aldarion and Erendis, the only known story set within Númenor before its fall.

Is Unfinished Tales in The Silmarillion?

Many of the tales within are retold in The Silmarillion, albeit in modified forms; the work also contains a summary of the events of The Lord of the Rings told from a less personal perspective. Cover of the first edition. It features Tolkien’s drawing of a Númenórean helmet.

Should I read The Silmarillion or Unfinished Tales first?

It’s a series of tales and notes in no particular order. The Silmarillion has a flow to it and is best read from front to back. It’s usually recommended to read The Silmarillion before Unfinished Tales.

Are the Unfinished Tales canon?

(Hobbit was revised, by Tolkien himself, in significant ways, to make it fit better with LotR.) So those are ‘canon’ in the sense that they were published in the author’s lifetime, as he wrote them, as finished works, with his complete, explicit approval.

When should you read Unfinished Tales?

This book should only be read AFTER you’ve gone through all three major books.

Is Unfinished Tales the same as Lost tales?

From what I can gather is that the Book of Lost Tales is a collection of early stories that would later become the Silmarillion, and that the Unfinished Tales are additional stories that are not in the Book of Lost Tales or the Silmarillion that were, of course, unfinished.

Is Unfinished Tales part of The History of Middle-earth?

Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth The success of Unfinished Tales led to the much more ambitious work of publishing the full History of Middle-earth.

Will there ever be more Middle-earth books?

Author J.R.R. Tolkien, beloved creator of The Lord of the Rings saga, has been gone since 1973, but a new book of his previously unseen writings is coming in 2021. The book, The Nature of Middle-earth, will return fans to the legendary world of Middle-earth.

Is The Adventures of Tom Bombadil canon?

Seeing as Adventures of Tom Bombadil was actually finished and published by Tolkien himself, many consider it to be higher canon than things like the Silmarillion.