 | The Hobbit: 70th Anniversary Edition: or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £11.77 / Used from: £8.00 This book will get you obsessed with Tolkien and wanting to know more.
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 | The Hobbit (Audio CD) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy used from: £11.99 If you don't want to read the book then listen to this. It is a brilliant and accurate dramatisation and will get you hooked and make you want to read the book.
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 | The Lord of the Rings: Millennium Edition by J. R. R. Tolkien
Buy used from: £0.01 After you've read The Hobbit, you'll be dying to read this anyway. This will keep you going for a while!
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 | The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy used from: £50.00 Again with this you could listen to this before reading The Lord of the Rings or listen to it afterwards. It will help you understand the story!
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 | Tales from the Perilous Realm: "Farmer Giles of Ham", "Leaf by Niggle", "Adventures of Tom Bombadil" and "Smith of Wootton Major" by J. R. R. Tolkien
Buy used from: £4.50 This book has brilliant short stories in it that will remind you of the genius of The Hobbit.
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 | The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy used from: £0.50 This gives a detailed background to Middle-Earth and its ancient peoples. It may be too complicated for the younger reader.
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 | Unfinished Tales: of Numenor and Middle-Earth by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy used from: £0.01 Gives similar background as the Silmarillion but gives different view points and accounts. It even gives a background to the Lonely Mountain quest featured in The Hobbit.
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 | Roverandom by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £3.97 / Used from: £0.83 Amazing little story all about a little dog and his adventures. Not very similar to The Hobbit but still good. Inspiration from Tolkien's son's toy dog!
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 | Tales from the Perilous Realm: "Farmer Giles of Ham", "Smith of Wootton Major", "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil", "Leaf by Niggle" (BBC Radio Collection) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Excellent! You'll listen to this again and again. Just as good as The Hobbit dramatisation. This will make you love Tolkien's work even more.
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 | The Silmarillion: Gift Set by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy new: £17.47 / Used from: £14.99 Martin Shaw narrates this accurately and clearly. It is easier to listen to the Silmarillion as a narration rather than reading it.
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 | The Eye of the World (Wheel of Time) by Robert Jordan
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £1.45 I was introduced to this after reading Tolkien's work and was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. It isn't very similar in the storyline but has the magic of different worlds that Tolkien did!
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 | The Great Hunt (Wheel of Time) by Robert Jordan
Buy new: £6.49 / Used from: £0.01 This whole series remains brilliant throughout. There are ten in the series so far and the tenth has just been published. Read the whole series!
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 | The World of Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" by Robert Jordan
Buy used from: £0.01 This gives a good background and description of the series (even though each book has a glossary of terms and names at the back).
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 | Wizard's First Rule: Book 1: The Sword Of Truth Series: Wizard's First Rule Bk.1 by Terry Goodkind
Buy used from: £0.56 This keeps you reading throughout the whole book. You don't want to put it down. It involves more wizadry than the wheel of time series but has some adult content.
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 | Stone of Tears Bk. 2 (Sword of Truth S.) by Terry Goodkind
Buy used from: £1.36 Just as good as the first. Continues the story well. Read the whole series!
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 | Tolkien: The Illustrated Encyclopaedia by David Day
Buy used from: £0.01 This has brilliant illustrations and gives very detailed backgrounds of everything int Tolkien's Middle-Earth history.
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 | The Hobbit - illustrated paperback by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy used from: £4.55 This book is exactly the same as The Hobbit but has excellent pictures from one of the artists used in the Films!
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 | The Lord of the Rings (Boxed Set) by J. R. R. Tolkien
same as The Lord of the Rings but again, with amazing illustrations.
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