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A few weeks ago I got a PM from a person who was publishing a scholarly work on Tolkien for permission to mention some of my stories in the essay. I gave permission, and had some nice e-mail correspondence with him.

The essay is now published as a Kindle e-book: Tolkien's Triumph: The Strange History of 'The Lord of the Rings' by John Lennard. It ( Read more... )

They are having a neat discussion at TORN about the wisdom of Middle-earth. Seems like it would be a fun thing to explore here.

My own response is here behind the cut, but I'd love to see what others might say:
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You call the pharmacy to refill your Celebrex prescription, and you say KELE-brex instead of SELE-brex!

Something rather amazing happened to me today.

Some of you may remember this post, which I made a little over a year ago, regarding a book on Tolkien and Middle-earth which I had read, and then written a letter to the author.

Well, you could have knocked me over with a feather when I received a response from her today...( Read more... )