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On Mon, 09 Aug 2021 10:00:08 -0700, Stan Brown wrote: > On Sat, 7 Aug 2021 19:19:23 -0000 (UTC), Steve Morrison wrote: >> >> HarperCollins has posted a preview of the upcoming >> /The Nature of Middle-Earth/: >> >> https://preview.aer.io/The_Nature_of_Middleearth-NDAxNzU2 > > Thanks for posting this. > > The blurb following the preview kind of implies that the material has > not been published before, but it doesn't say so explicitly. Does > anyone here know for certain? This Reddit thread lists some new information from the book: https://tinyurl.com/2kere2ab

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On Mon, 9 Aug 2021 10:00:08 -0700, Stan Brown wrote: >On Sat, 7 Aug 2021 19:19:23 -0000 (UTC), Steve Morrison wrote: >> >> HarperCollins has posted a preview of the upcoming >> /The Nature of Middle-Earth/: >> >> https://preview.aer.io/The_Nature_of_Middleearth-NDAxNzU2 > >Thanks for posting this. > >The blurb following the preview kind of implies that the material has >not been published before, but it doesn't say so explicitly. Does >anyone here know for certain? Reading only the first few pages, it seems to me that it was published in /HOME/. Just in a different form, and more spread out. But it should be a nifty compendium of that material. -- "I begin to envy Petronius." "I have envied him long since."

On Sat, 7 Aug 2021 19:19:23 -0000 (UTC), Steve Morrison wrote: > > HarperCollins has posted a preview of the upcoming > /The Nature of Middle-Earth/: > > https://preview.aer.io/The_Nature_of_Middleearth-NDAxNzU2 Thanks for posting this. The blurb following the preview kind of implies that the material has not been published before, but it doesn't say so explicitly. Does anyone here know for certain? -- Stan Brown, Tehachapi, California, USA https://BrownMath.com/ https://OakRoadSystems.com/ Tolkien FAQs: http://Tolkien.slimy.com (Steuard Jensen) Tolkien letters FAQ: https://preview.tinyurl.com/pr6sa7u FAQ of the Rings: https://oakroadsystems.com/genl/ringfaq.htm Encyclopedia of Arda: http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/default.htm

HarperCollins has posted a preview of the upcoming /The Nature of Middle-Earth/: https://preview.aer.io/The_Nature_of_Middleearth-NDAxNzU2

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On 05/06/2021 10.59, Philip Dudt wrote: > On Friday, June 21, 1996 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Manzares wrote: >> I would love for all to open up a running debate on what was the main >> theme of LotR. I say power; I'll write my reasons later. Anyone >> with/against me? Post it! > > I'm probably opening up an old thread that nobody wants to read, but anyways If you'd waited a few more days, it would have been a quarter century old. > Amazon is making a tv show on Middle Earth, and will be putting sex scenes in it, Sam will kill him if he tries anything! -- Michael F. Stemper 87.3% of all statistics are made up by the person giving them.

On Thursday, August 29, 1996 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Dan wrote: > On 1 Jul 96 12:36:19 MDT, ajan...@UWYO.EDU wrote: > > The only > >person in the story for whom I felt anything was Hurin himself. The rest of > >that poor lot were so stupid and proud that they brought most of their woes > >upon themselves. I was sad about Turin, Morwen, and Neinor. I was angry that > >so much that was good wasted away at the hands of pride. Really I was more > >frustrated than sad. Anyway, that was just my take on the story. Hurin > >must've been really ticked......Betcha Mim died a really painful death. > Well ment if not well said. Pride went before the fall in almost every > case. From Melkor on down. But yet not all were guilty of this error.