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tenworld
2017-08-02 16:41:57 UTC
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I got the new book thinking it was a novel telling in fullness a story
from Silmarillion. After 50 pages of Christopher Tolkien discussing
what a great job he did figuring out his father's notes I took it back.

whats the point?
Barry Schwarz
2017-08-02 17:32:53 UTC
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I got the new book thinking it was a novel telling in fullness a story
from Silmarillion. After 50 pages of Christopher Tolkien discussing
what a great job he did figuring out his father's notes I took it back.
I am patiently waiting for CT's definitive analysis of the coffee,
tea, brandy, and other stains on the documents.
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Fred Smith
2017-08-03 01:45:30 UTC
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I got the new book thinking it was a novel telling in fullness a story
from Silmarillion. After 50 pages of Christopher Tolkien discussing
what a great job he did figuring out his father's notes I took it back.
I am patiently waiting for CT's definitive analysis of the coffee,
tea, brandy, and other stains on the documents.
Have you heard "The Unfinished Spelling Errors of Bolkien"
Stan Brown
2017-08-04 23:37:37 UTC
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I got the new book thinking it was a novel telling in fullness a story
from Silmarillion. After 50 pages of Christopher Tolkien discussing
what a great job he did figuring out his father's notes I took it back.
I am patiently waiting for CT's definitive analysis of the coffee,
tea, brandy, and other stains on the documents.
Have you heard "The Unfinished Spelling Errors of Bolkien"
"I don't like the look of these 'ere Boncentration Bamps."
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Paul S. Person
2017-08-03 16:19:09 UTC
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I got the new book thinking it was a novel telling in fullness a story
from Silmarillion. After 50 pages of Christopher Tolkien discussing
what a great job he did figuring out his father's notes I took it back.
whats the point?
Apparently, the point is to gather all the material from /HOME/
together in one volume and explicate it.

So the only new material is whatever CT has to say about it.

This is called "scholarship".

And, BTW, CT put a few personal asides into HOME as well.
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Louis Epstein
2017-08-30 19:25:12 UTC
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I got the new book thinking it was a novel telling in fullness a story
from Silmarillion. After 50 pages of Christopher Tolkien discussing
what a great job he did figuring out his father's notes I took it back.
whats the point?
If you thought it was a novel length version you have paid no attention
to the background behind its publication.

It's worth having in its own right.

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