The Hall of Fire

I was most struck by this comment by Noad: The 1977 version became a work of lesser importance, a somewhat secondary and, to a degree, synthetic assemblage. In fact it’s a long time since I’ve read it. About sixteen months ago, a professor attending the annual Tolkien conference at the University o...

Voronwë_the_Faithful wrote:Of course, she and her readers also disagree with Jason on some important points, too.

Yes, but they're wrong.

(Just kidding, of course.)

I agree with Jason Fisher, that everyone of us has its own "Silmarillion". Agreeing with him I could not notice one point. His notion is, that there is no objective way to recreate work of JRRT. And again to a great extent he is right, to great extent, but not totally. [...] There is no l...

Just a quick reply to one particular point: To me, something does seem inappropriate here: the emphasis on Shippey’s eminence. Either his work is worth responding to or it’s not – you don’t need to appeal to his reputation. It may be this puffing up of Shippey that suggests to Fisher that your main ...

Carl, thanks very much for sharing (with permission) Christopher Tolkien's statements regarding Doug's book. I read those with great interest indeed, particularly as concerns the 2600-page History of The Silmarillion — wouldn't we all love a chance to take a look at that! But may I add: I now know -...