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- Great new Newsgroup!
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- For those wondering about the Silmarillion, read it! I have found it to
- be the best of Tolkien's writings. Of course it was also the work that he
- considered his greatest labor of love. These stories were the basis for
- evrything else written concerning the LotR.
- If you have seen the book called "The Lost Tales, The History of Middle
- Earth" I would highly recommend the first two volumes. They are much richer in
- the description of the stories that became (in some cases) chapters in the
- Silmarillion (those who have read them know how much of the story-telling was
- lost. For examplethe difference sbetween the Fall of Gondolin as toldin "The
- Silmarillion" and in "The Lost Tales"). Of course I am a Tolkien fanatic and am
- possesed by the desire to purchase every Tolkien book that appears on the
- market. Incidentally The Picture of J.R.R. Tolkien is out.
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- I also saw (and bought) A 50th anniversary edition of The Hobbit (gold
- leather bound in a case) cost about $35 and is beautifully done. There is also
- version of LotR out that is red leather bound and in a case (I think Houghton
- Mifflin meant them to be companions but that is not explicitly stated
- anywhere). Keep in mind this is in the USA.
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- Boromir, A man who desires to overcome the shadow so greatly that the
- ring is able to work on him subtly, he starts to believe that he can use the
- ring to defeat Sauron. I don't think that he is a "bad person" he is somewhat
- Machiavellian, and again, the ring begins to exert influence over him.
- Remember, the ring is a somewhat sentient object, it slipped from Isildur's
- hand, and Gom's . Tolkien implies it did this purposefully in an attempt to
- return to it's master.
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- One last thing, more disturbing to me is the fact that Saruman was
- corrupted in his quest for the ring. Was it *the ring* which did this or greed.
- How inconsistent is it for a Maia osf Manwe to be swbbut ended evil (and, well,
- impotent).
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- Whew!
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- Rich (who has no sig, yet)
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- Again he started with good intention (like Boromir)
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