Current Events > Are the expanded Silmarillion stories worth reading?

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ie The Children of Hurin, The Fall of Gondolin?

The Silmarillion is one of my favorite books and a few of the stories have been expanded from Tolkien's original notes into books the size of the Silmarillion itself. Has anyone read these? Does making them 300 pages add more to the story or are the versions in the Silmarillion pretty much complete?

naw dawg the silmarillion versions are like the summaries.
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So taking them from 10-20 pages up to 300, what did they add?

more fluff, some character background, expanded upon things that were more summarized.

i dunno i'm spoiled by the old versions of them from "Lays of Beleriand" which unfortunately is out of print now.
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The Children of Hurin is good. Like as been said it expands on the chapter in The Silmarillion. If you're a big fan then you probably would like it. Christopher Lee did an audiobook of it too, if that interests you.

The only other one I got is Beren and Luthien, but so far from what I've read it's just early/alternate versions of the story which can be interesting if you're real big into Tolkien stuff.
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