Feel free to ignore this opinion, as it is NOT coming from a Tolkien fan...
Read the Hobbit if you must. Then just watch the Lord of the Ring movies. They're not without their flaws, but they're preferable to an epic three-volume history textbook.
From the descriptions in this thread, I shudder to imagine what the Histories must be like.
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I wonder if we're stuck in Rome.
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