Triangle Tolkienists

We’ve read and reread all the major texts of the legendarium together, and even several of the more niche ones – yet in all these years, we still haven’t hit Unfinished Tales with the book club. It’s time to fix that!

Many of these stories will be familiar to those of you who have been around in the book club for a while; we’ve encountered them in other forms in various other texts, like The Silmarillion, The Fall of Númenor, The Children of Húrin, and The Annotated Hobbit. But Unfinished Tales is the book that made the others possible.

We will once again be spreading these readings out over a few months. Here is the schedule:

You can read any edition of the book. As usual, you can purchase a copy with a 21% discount from Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh; just tell the bookseller (or write in your online order notes) that it’s for our club. You can also support indie bookstores by purchasing a copy from Bookshop.org. This is a good opportunity to pick up a pretty new edition, if that’s something you’re interested in!

Quick rundown of how our virtual book club meetings work:

We meet on Discord – click here to join.

Before or during the meeting, submit your questions or topics for discussion in the designated Discord thread (which is separate from the discussion channel). Throughout the meeting, the moderator will introduce questions for the group to answer. This helps control the flow of the conversation and allows everyone to have a chance to speak before we move on to another subject.

You don’t need a camera or a microphone to participate – most of us prefer to type. If you want to hop into voice chat during the meeting, you are welcome to do so, but the voice channel will not be moderated.

Can’t wait to dig into this with all of you!