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Originally Posted by Quoth
The LOTR and the Hobbit (quite a different style of book) are really complete without the Silmarillion, which is almost equivalent to as if the books IN some fantasy story were written by a mysteriously alive person from that imaginary world. Almost a sort of meta-Fantasy?
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Which is exactly what is written in the LoTR appendixes, that they were written as the Redbook of the Westmarshes and was then edited and retranslated several times in Gondor until Tolkien translated them into English.