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Lord of the Rings Novels Tier List
Ranking Tolkien's Middle-earth books and their epic scope.
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The crowd's ranking
S: The Fellowship of the Ring
A: The Return of the King, The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, The Two Towers
B: Unfinished Tales
C: History of Middle-earth
Discussion
lost_potato: The Silmarillion is the Old Testament of Middle-earth. Read it last.
MrWaffle: Two Towers book 4 with Frodo, Sam and Gollum is the best part of the whole thing. Book 3 is Treebeard talking for 40 pages.
lazy_panda_84: Worst? What is this "worst" of which you speak? I can find no worst in Tolkien.
NotGooseOfficial: History of Middle-earth is 12 volumes of drafts. For the truly committed.
xXNuggetXx: Scouring of the Shire should never have been cut