Thread:Rodangizzardcrusher3/@comment-26687285-20170311140616/@comment-26687285-20170329151307

That's not a problem JP. The point is not to make you feel stupid or even to show how much greater my understanding of the lore is than yours (cause believe me, even I only know, give or take, 22% of everything there is to know about this stuff). I'm curious to see which things you recognise to see how similar our knowledge about the franchise is.

Also, I noticed you used the term expanded universe to describe everything outside the four main books. While I get what you mean, I would actually say that this is a misuse of that term. It's not that The Silmarillion, Children of Hurin, or The Book Lost/Unfinished Tales are expansions of Tolkien's world, it's that LotR and Hobbit are only tiny parts of the larger narrative. What I mean is that unlike SW or Trek, where many different people have brought in their own ideas about the universe, how it works, what its history is, and which things are canonical, Tolkien's writings are one ongoing tale that has a definitive history and lore. Nobody besides John himself (and a few of children) wrote or filled in these stories.