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This book is a compilation of source material from across Tolkien’s canon. Readers learn about how he constructs language, geography, flora, fauna and history. It’s an astonishing display of thought and planning that brings a fantasy world into clear relief.

Good, mind bending. Deals with a species of humans that can gender shift. And they have cultural norms around truth and self presentation that are at odds with our norms. The reader catches glimpses of this but the normal human doesn’t so you actually have three perspectives going on. It’s ... a challenge. The good kind.