Wikipedia describes it this way: "The Lost Road itself is a fragmentary beginning of a tale, including a rough structure and several intiguing chunks of narrative, including four entire chapters dealing with modern England and Numenor, from which the entire story as it should have been can be glimpsed. Along with other writings this volume includes Tolkien's drafts of a tale about time travel. This theme is taken up again in volumes X and XI. As you might guess by the title, in this book Christopher describes how his father shaped his vision of Middle-earth from the primitive The Book of Lost Tales to early versions of The Silmarillion. Vol 4, The Shaping of Middle-earth (1986). These are collections of poems, many of them incomplete, written between the 1920s and the late 1940s. In the earlier versions of the `Lost Tales' this man is named Eriol, of some vague north European origin, but in later versions he becomes Ælfwine, an Englishman of the Middle-ages." Vol. Wikipedia describes it this way: "The framework for the book is that a mortal Man visits the Isle of Tol Eressëa where the Elves live. The Book of Lost Tales was written during the 1910s and 1920s. In them, Tolkien was struggling as a still unknown author to create his first history of Middle-earth.
GROUP ONE, VOLUMES I - V, EARLY TALES These five volumes deal primarily Tolkien's writings before the publication of The Hobbit (1937) and The Lord of the Rings (1954-55). Which you buy depends on your taste in books and finances. If the title is the same, the content is the same. For some reason, Ballantine doesn't always make it clear that some of their titles are part of the same History of Middle-earth series as those published by Houghton Mifflin. Houghton Mifflin publishes Tolkien's authorized works in hardback and trade paperback editions, while Ballantine Books publishes them as cheaper mass-market paperbacks. Hopefully, it will help you select which book or books to buy. Here's an overview of the twelve-volume History of Middle-earth, which was edited by his son Christopher Tolkien. Collections of an author's work are often confusing, particularly when what the author has created is as complex as Tolkien's writings.
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