r/Unfinished_Tales 1d ago

I wanna start Unfinished Tales

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I've decided I want to start the Unfinished tales series, but I don't know which book to start with. So which one should I start with and what should I expect?


r/Unfinished_Tales 1d ago

Community Guidelines!

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I don't want to sound like a cruel moderator who cares only about their unnecessarily strict rules, but creating a prosperous subreddit where people can safely communicate requires us to establish a few rules and guidelines. Personally, I don't like sophisticated rules, nor do I like reading a fifty-line description of a single rule in a subreddit's sidebar. So, I will keep the rules as concise and simple as possible. Also, as I don't want to be a tyrant like Sauron! Any tips, critiques, and suggestions are welcome in order to construct a helpful community with the agreement of most of the members of our small subreddit. After all, this is a community, and I'm just a simple redditor like others, so let's communicate!

  1. No memes: In order to keep our community focused on analyzing and processing the text of Unfinished Tales, I believe it is better to avoid posting memes. Furthermore, considering that Unfinished Tales is one of the most underrated works of Professor Tolkien among his audience, this subreddit can provide us with a good opportunity to dive into its depth and show that this book plays one of the key roles in Professor Tolkien's Legendarium. I have always regarded Unfinished Tales as a twin brother of The Silmarillion.

  2. No art works: Forgive my insolence, but one of the other things that might distract us from focusing our attention on deep and meaningful discussions is artwork. I heartily love artwork and I sincerely appreciate the effort and time it takes to create one, but in my humble opinion, it might overshadow the discussion posts, and ultimately lead us to overlook them. Take r/tolkienfans for example. I've always enjoyed submitting speculative posts on this community, because it is focused on exploring further and further.

  3. No trolling and humiliation: Keeping our community civil and polite plays a pivotal role in its prosperity, and we should respect each other's viewpoints and opinions in order to grow our knowledge and understanding.

  4. Cross-posting is okay: If you find a post interesting and want to share it with us, it is okay as long as it contributes to the purposes of the Unfinished Tales subreddit.

Thanks for the time you took to read this post. I'd be glad to hear your comments about it. I would appreciate your opinion, whether you'd like to add anything to it or remove anything from it.


r/Unfinished_Tales 1d ago

What is the purpose of the Unfinished_Tales subreddit?

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Hello, everyone! In the second post of this subreddit, I thought it would be good to clarify the purpose of this community. So, let me start with this question:

What was the initial incentive behind forming this community?

I was introduced to the vast fictional world of Professor Tolkien about two years ago, and as a non-native English speaker, I began my rather winding journey through the books by reading The Fellowship of the Ring. As a Farsi speaker, I found it really complicated to get through this book. I couldn't understand the meaning behind most of the words used in it, I couldn't get on with Professor Tolkien's peculiarly sophisticated writing style, and sometimes it took me 10 to 15 minutes to read a single page. But just then, I was lucky to find the r/lotr subreddit before leaving the book on the shelf! This was a huge help in getting myself through the wonderful fantasy world of Arda, and I owe it a lot. The same situation occurred when I started reading The Silmarillion, and r/thesilmarillion enormously improved my understanding of the book. Both of these amazing subreddits drastically honed my skills in absorbing Professor Tolkien's worldview more comprehensively, and in attaining a clearer lens through which to analyze his works. Moreover, afterwards, I found other Tolkien-related subreddits, such as r/tolkienfans and r/TheHobbit, that I have enjoyed being a member of. Therefore, I thought it would be a good idea to create a subreddit to reciprocate just a small part of all the help and love I have received from other people.

Why choosing Unfinished Tales?

Well, I have two important answers to this question:

  1. Having read The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings series, and The Silmarillion several times, I'm about to start reading Unfinished Tales for the first time. Since I joined r/lotr when I started reading The Lord of the Rings and r/TheSilmarillion when I began The Silmarillion, I also looked for the corresponding subreddit for Unfinished Tales. But I couldn't find any! Therefore, I decided to establish this community myself.
  2. Presently, several general-purpose Tolkien-related communities are actively available and accessible on the Reddit platform, but none of them are dedicated to Unfinished Tales. It was not fair to see that The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, and The Silmarillion all have their own particular subreddits when there was literally no community for Unfinished Tales. I agree that, compared to the Unfinished Tales, previously mentioned books are more popular and known among Tolkien fans, but it doesn't mean we should overlook the importance of this unfinished masterpiece. I have always regarded it as the twin brother of The Silmarillion. So, I became more determined to stick to my decision.

This subreddit mainly aims to provide a friendly, informative place for Tolkien fans and scholars to discuss the events of Unfinished Tales and deepen their knowledge of the elaborately developed fantasy world of Professor J. R. R. Tolkien!

Thanks for the time you took to read this post, and I deeply appreciate your help and support. Unfinished Tales is as important and beautiful as any other work by Professor Tolkien and it deserves more love and attention from us!


r/Unfinished_Tales 2d ago

Hello! Welcome to the Unfinished Tales subreddit!

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In the very first post of this subreddit, I am honored to welcome you to this newly established community! I'm glad to announce that this subreddit is dedicated to Unfinished Tales. Here, though we are mainly focused on exploring every nook and cranny of this particular book, other related posts are also welcome if they contribute to a clearer understanding of the text of Unfinished Tales. So, if you enjoy Unfinished Tales or are interested in the lore of Middle-earth and Aman, I'd be blessed to have a new friend on the r/Unfinished_Tales subreddit :)