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1"Should" and "best" indicate opinion-based questions with primarily opinion-based answers. Please clarify whether you're looking for the most chronological, published order, or the order in which information is revealed (i.e. reading LoTR before the Hobbit is ill advised because LoTR assumes that the reader is familiar with the Ring's origin).– MattCommented Jan 16, 2014 at 18:11
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2It is enough just to read them. Do not be overly concerned about finding 'a reading order' You would be ill advised to take Tolkien's Writings on Middle Earth so seriously that you worry about such things. Read for yourself. when YOU want, How YOU want, IF YOU WANT, & At YOUR own speed.– user24813Commented Apr 8, 2014 at 14:52
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8From the front of the book to the back, and from the upper left to the lower right.– Wad CheberCommented Aug 8, 2015 at 4:45
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Too late for the OP, but I highly recommend reading these to your (young) children, so they can experience them as I did...as a sort of mish-mash of legends and stories half-remembered from early childhood, reinforced when I finally read them for myself - in published order.– Quasi_StomachCommented Jan 30, 2018 at 20:39
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I would consider adding some of his non-Middle Earth short stories, especially "Smith of Wooton Major", after you finish LOTR and the Hobbit. That particular story added a lot of depth to Tolkien's way of thinking (to me) that really enriched my reading of the Silmarillion.– BarneyFifeFanCommented Feb 1, 2018 at 19:25
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