[papineau]

There’s quite a bit actually and The Silmarillion is a good place to start but like other’s have said, its not in the “novel” style of LOTR.

Even denser are the dozen or so volumes of “The History Of The Peoples Of Middle Earth” compiled from JRR’s notes over 50 years by his son Christopher. It’s like poring through 100,000 pages of heavily annotated academic text, but great for the true fanatic.

There’s also “Lost Tales” and “Forgotten Tales”, also compiled by Christopher, more like The Silmarillion in style. “The Children of Hurin” is a fuller version of some of the stories in the Silmarillion about men.

There’s a ton of stuff on the web too, it’s been a huge subject since the early days of the Internet. The flame war over “Do Balrogs have wings?” in the usenet newsgroups is still talked about.

Try http://tolkien.slimy.com/ , the Tolkien meta faq for some interesting stuff.

[FourtySeven]

Cool thanks.

So what’s the consensus now? Do Balrogs have wings?