Quality Control
When we received our advance copy of the new J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide in September we found two of the three volumes hard to remove from the slipcase. It seems that too much glue was used in...
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New Addenda and Corrigenda
With the publication of our revised and enlarged J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide, we’ve ceased to post addenda and corrigenda to the 2006 edition. Instead, we’ve created new web pages, for the 2017...
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The J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide The new edition of our J.R.R. Tolkien Companion and Guide is currently offered on Amazon U.K. for £76.78. This is not as low as the price has gone, but is less...
View ArticleTruth or Consequences, Again
More than eight years ago, as we announced in this space, we wrote a paper for the ‘Scholars Forum’ section of the once very active Lord of the Rings Fanatics Plaza website, ‘Truth or Consequences: A...
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Forty-five Years We’ve been recalling our sadness when we read, in newspapers a day later, of the death of J.R.R. Tolkien forty-five years ago today. Christina was visiting her parents in Bristol,...
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The Fall of Gondolin We received today (in Massachusetts) our copies of the HarperCollins trade and deluxe editions of The Fall of Gondolin. Both are first printings. We ordered them in good time...
View ArticleAddenda & Corrigenda September 2018
We have posted to our website new addenda and corrigenda to several of our books, links as follows: The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and Other Verses from the Red Book J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and...
View ArticleTolkien Collection Quantified – Comments
Quite a few of you looked at our latest post. Thanks, and apologies for the length of time between that post and the one before that. We’ve had some comments, both direct to our blog and on the...
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Well Known? The Spring number of the journal The Book Collector refers (p. 135) to a ‘well known’ story ‘about Tolkien being advised by a friend to whom he showed his first manuscript to stick to...
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Richard C. West, 1944–2020 One of our oldest friends, Richard West, died on 29 November from Covid-19. We first met him in the nineteen-eighties, and were awed by his knowledge, kindness, and...
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