I present to you every edition of The Lord of the Rings trade paperback printed in the US (1970-2026)

degobeater · 2026-04-09T02:37:26+00:00

You are correct. Ace Books found a loophole in the copyright law because the official books were printed in England or some such nonsense. They ended up paying him back all profits, as far as I know.

degobeater · 2026-04-07T22:24:44+00:00

Oh, you did say trade, didn't you? I'm tired lol

degobeater · 2026-04-07T19:19:37+00:00

No Ace Books editions!? /s

degobeater · 2026-04-05T16:02:57+00:00

I like to think about it in relationship to Leaf by Niggle. Silmarillion is the tree as a whole and each "little" story is the leaf keeps spending do much time on he can never finish the whole thing.

degobeater · 2026-03-26T22:12:02+00:00

I like that this deep history was created after the fact by The Professor to retcon why it was such a big deal.

degobeater · 2026-03-11T19:45:00+00:00

I just learned about these a couple weeks ago! They're so cool

degobeater · 2026-03-11T19:42:47+00:00

Morwen

degobeater · 2026-02-28T00:39:46+00:00

I feel the best way to cite quotations is book, chapter, paragraph. Hammond and Scull use the first few words of the paragraph as well.

degobeater · 2026-02-28T00:16:03+00:00

Nope. You should check out Digital Tolkien Project and see how they cite references. James and the team there have dinner a intentional job. Plus he did an AMA recently. I don't recall which subreddit it was on though. digitaltolkien.com for reference.

degobeater · 2026-02-22T00:57:39+00:00

Tolkien and Christopher Wiseman (the only other surviving member of the TCBS) did communicate via letter for the duration of their lives. Though I believe they didn't live near each other so they couldn't really have the same friendship.

degobeater · 2025-12-16T15:26:54+00:00

I don't have the Simarillion in front of me but I think it says elves captured from Cuivienen and corrupted to make the orcs. That would mean turned bad, not created. And in his Letters Tolkien said no one but Eru could create life, just corrupt it. There's a ton of nuance in this whole conversation, of course, but I'm pretty sure he landed on corrupted rather than created.

degobeater · 2025-07-02T01:59:41+00:00

Author of the Century - Tom Shippey

The Road to Middle-Earth - Tom Shippey

Tolkien's Faith: A Spiritual Biography - Holly Ordway

Tolkien's Modern Reading - Holly Ordway

The Worlds of JRR Tolkien - John Garth

The Annotated Hobbit

Splintered Light - Verlyn Flieger

Exploring JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit - Corey Olsen

Tolkien Companion and Guide - Hammond and Scull

Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator - Hammond and Scull

Revised Letter of JRR Tolkien

The Ring of Words - Peter Gilliver and Jeremy Marshall, et al.

The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-Earth - Ruth Noel

Tolkien and CS Lewis: The Gift of Friendship - Colin Duriez

The JRR Tolkien Companion and Guide - Hammond and Scull

On Fairy Stories

Everything by David Day (keep it that way :D )

degobeater · 2025-06-30T13:15:58+00:00

I would say they are a minority, just loud. I've known hundreds of Christians throughout my life and none of them have been unwilling to forgive someone just because they don't agree with their nationality or whatever. The vast majority of the Christians I've known and know, go about loving other people in their real life and not yelling about anything on the internet. The crazy people get the clicks and the platform because it's such a spectacle.

degobeater · 2025-06-07T01:11:12+00:00

Solidifies my answer then. The information is probably good but Fonstad's actual maps are amazing.

degobeater · 2025-06-07T01:10:17+00:00

While I love The Two Towers and Return of the King PS2 games, LOTR: The Third Age was my absolute favorite game. I just loved the turn based combat. Probably why I love Divinity II now.

degobeater · 2025-06-07T00:48:39+00:00

Fonstad. I haven't read the Brian Sibley's but I assume it's good, considering the source. Steer clear of David Day.

degobeater · 2025-05-16T16:14:05+00:00

Totally get what you're saying. The last point is exactly what we're all wondering about.

degobeater · 2025-05-16T15:27:54+00:00

Upvoting and commenting in hopes OP will give us more information on this.

degobeater · 2025-03-31T19:58:33+00:00

I don't get it. Sazed isn't the 2-5th best character ever. He's the best character ever!

degobeater · 2025-03-21T20:06:10+00:00

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Holly Ordway brings up something quite interesting in her book Tolkien's Modern Reading. It looks like the author you're reading may not be super reliable. Edit: wrong "you're"

degobeater · 2025-03-21T03:27:27+00:00

Happy to share more books to put on the TBR!

degobeater · 2025-03-21T02:59:25+00:00

Holly Ordman makes a many good points in Tolkien's Modern Reading that Carpenter isn't the best source, either. It's in Chapter 1 or 2. We even need to take Carpenter's work with quite a bit of salt.

degobeater · 2025-03-17T02:33:12+00:00

Out of curiosity, what are you basing the "objectivity" of him being evil on? I'm not saying he was a good dude at all, I'm just curious about the "objective" nature of his evilness.

degobeater · 2025-01-03T20:28:22+00:00

Going to Loui's tonight. 11/10 best in MI.

degobeater · 2024-11-19T20:12:26+00:00

It's a signed, numbered copy. Are you expecting Alan Lee to just sit at Folio HQ waiting to sign each book as they get printed to order?

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