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Originally Posted by Glorfindel
I have the same problem, though I don't have all of the books (yet).
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I didn't either, and I've doubted for years if I should get the History books. As soon as it was/became available as an e-book, I bought everything about Middle-Earth, but as I said above, after Lost Tales I and II, the rest of the History books were never released as of yet.
This weekend I've decided to go for it, and got everything at once. (I'm not going on holiday this year, and I had a nice tax refund
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2004 Deluxe Editions of:
The Hobbit*
The Lord of the Rings
The Silmarillion
The Children of Hurin*
The Unfinished Tales
Tales of the Perilous Realm*
* = Illustrated. It's a pity The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion in this set are not illustrated, so I also got the 2014 edition of The Lord of the Rings illustrated by Alan Lee, and the 2004 edition of The Silmarillion illustrated by Ted Nasmith. Of Unfinished Tales, no illustrated version exists, AFAIK.
In addition, I finally also acquired the Histories:
History of Middle-Earth, Part 1 (Book I-V)
History of Middle-Earth, Part 2 (Book VI-IX)
History of Middle-Earth, Part 3 (Book X-XII)
History of The Hobbit (Volume 1-3)
I already have the Extended Blu-Ray box of LotR, and I'll get the Hobbit one as soon as it is released.
These books and movies will be the only physical media I'll keep, apart from The Lion King series, Shogun, and Samurai/Musashi 1-3. Maybe I'll add a new hardcover version of Shogun as well; I already have a hardcover of Musashi.
As for the rest, I'll be clearing out everything in the coming weeks, both physical and digital: possessions and stuff, e-books, digital music, spare computer parts, everything. Regarding digital stuff, I'll pick out what I really want, and just archive the rest into a separate folder, to be searched if I suspect something I want might be already in there.