3 best JRR Tolkien books

The consideration of literature as a work of creation acquires in Tolkien an almost divine character. JRR Tolkien ended up being a God of literature while his imagination ended up materializing one of the most powerful general imaginaries in world literature. It is about reaching the Olympus of fantasy in a narrative cosmos that addresses the epic from the construction of a world that also starts from the everyday. Unique characters and new cultures brushed precisely to make them credible, tangible and finally empathetic in their abysmal remoteness from this world.

As I say, a narrative cosmos that is a pleasure to contemplate in various cases and collections that try to gather the vast imagination of this author (with maps included on some occasions):

Tolkien Case

Few authors today worthily follow Tolkien's Creator legacy. Writers among those who stand out Patrick Rothfuss with its alternative worlds with evocations of the great reference and master of the genre.

Because Tolkien's great virtue was the epitome of his overwhelming imagination and his outstanding command of language. Mastering the language for a writer means reaching the metalanguage, that indeterminate space in which the conjugation of words reaches total harmony with imagination and meaning.

Only a prestigious linguist like Tolkien, determined to invent new worlds, could be able to reach that place reserved for geniuses capable of transmitting and moving readers of any generation in an alternative world for which there is always room.

This 2018 comes to light the novel The fall of Gondolin, a new novel recovered for the cause by his son Christopher Tolkien and that delves into a kind of prehistory of Middle-earth. AND

his novel was written by Tolkien in a period of convalescence after being wounded in the famous battle of the Somme, in whose circumstances you can also enjoy the novel The sixteen trees of the Somme, which while not a fantasy genre, offers a unique perspective on what happened there.

After reviewing that long-awaited fall of Gondolin, announced as an essential prequel (or at least notorious previous chronological location) of The Lord of the Rings, the results of my consideration of Tolkien's best novels may vary, but for now I remain in the relationship that I will refer to right away.

JRR Tolkien's Top 3 Recommended Novels

The Lord of the Rings

Not because it is too hackneyed or because it is commercially overexploited, this novel detracts from its essence. The discovery of this book in my young years supposed a special encounter with friends embarked on the same reading. The most fascinating thing about reading Tolkien may be that level of rapport that can occur with other readers.

But come on, reading The Lord of the Rings, albeit on its own, becomes one of those trips that no electronic game or 3D magic can match. We are in the Third Age of Middle-earth. The antecedents of this novel are The Hobbit and indirectly The Silmarillion. But the reading of the novel can be independent.

We soon discover the grim power of the Dark Lord of Mordor, with whose ring he hopes to project evil beyond his realm. The inhabitants of the middle earth conspire so that the Dark Lord does not manage to seize all the power. To do this they must destroy the ring.

On a riveting journey, an adventure that appeals to the will for good, elves, hobbits, humans and dwarves head to the realms of the dark realm to eliminate the ring and its growing hold over all of Middle-earth.

It is about the inexhaustible theme of good and evil, of David against Goliath, of the people against tyrannical power. A giant allegory that brings literary brilliance in form and substance.

Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth

One of the great successes of Tolkien in this effort to create a new world was the creation of lighter stories, capable of branching out their own universe, of locating complementary microcosms that can be discovered in different historical periods of Middle Earth.

This book is enjoyed and savored like a delicious sprinkle of here and there, from the beginning of it all to the end of the War of the Ring. Thus, we enjoy a unique possibility of giving prominence to transcendental characters of the whole and that nevertheless seem to never have their own voice in the great novels.

I am talking about Gandalf, the protagonist of one of the stories in which he himself tells us some of his most momentous decisions ..., or we also discover parallel events that acquire a special significance once the narration of the events, the story of Númenor, the legend of Amroth, the gathering of Closed Boslon.

Each of the stories are easily relatable and linkable with the main trunk of the Tolkien Universe, as this parallel world of Middle Earth should be called.

Unfinished tales

The silmarillion

Once you enter the Tolkien Universe, there always comes a time when curiosity about the Silmarillion overcomes you. We go back to the First Age, a time often referred to in every later plot of Middle-earth.

Among memories of some of the inhabitants of this time, such as Elrond and Galadriel, as well as the mythological evocations of the rest of the inhabitants of the Third Age, opening this book implies access to the religion of Middle-earth, if at all. You can call this a kind of particular Bible where some and other inhabitants of Middle-earth find beliefs, motivations and hopes.

The Silmaris were elven-polished jewels in which the radiance of the Valinor trees was concentrated. When the trees fell for the evil Dark Lord, he also ended up getting the jewels to complete a crown full of symbolic trophies with which he demonstrated his total rule over Middle-earth.

Without being an epic narrative, the symbology of this primal narrative addresses the birth of the conflict between good and evil, as I say, in the manner of a world on which religion is born ...

The Silmarillion. Illustrated by Ted Nasmith
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