It then contains the “Old Testament”, that fleshes out much of the older lore in the World. These writings are less firmly established, but are widely considered to include:
The Silmarillion
Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth
The Children of Húrin
Then you have books of Psalms, like The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and other stories.
Let’s not forget the Epistles, the letters of the apostles, compiled under: The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
And it was not supposed to be three.Professor Tolkien was forced to split the book by his publisher.So the three is one holy bookå
The Bible has used the same structure as Tolkien.
It starts off with the Gospel/early testimonies:
Then the New Testament proper:
It then contains the “Old Testament”, that fleshes out much of the older lore in the World. These writings are less firmly established, but are widely considered to include:
Then you have books of Psalms, like The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and other stories.
Let’s not forget the Epistles, the letters of the apostles, compiled under:
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien
Technically it’s six books, but he was going to publish them as one volume until the publisher said “you can’t do that”