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From: med@astrovax.UUCP (Mark Dickinson)
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Subject: Re: Proposal for new group for discussion of Tolkien
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Date: Thu, 9-May-85 16:47:30 EDT
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> 	I support creating such a group.  Besides talking about LOTR
> and the Hobbit, Chris Tolkein has just come out with another volume
> of his father's very early works, including some of his earliest writings
> still extant.

	
	Well, I don't know if there's any need at present for a separate
newsgroup for the subject, but I certainly wouldn't mind if there were
some discussion of it here in net.books.

	First off, a question with regard to the above quoted excerpt:
does this mean that the third volume of "The History of Middle Earth" has
been published? I have not seen it yet, but the bookstores in my part of the
world may just be slow. I enjoyed "The Book of Lost Tales" immensely,
but I am particularly anxious to see (at long last) the text(s) if "The
Lay of Leithan" and some of Tolkien's other major poetic work. I've been
an enthusiast of epic verse since reading Beowulf way back when, and I'm
eager to read Tolkien's efforts. The volume will also include C. S. Lewis'
commentaries and criticisms of the Lays, or so it is said.

	Anyway, if the book is now available, I'd appreciate someone
letting me know.

					Mark Dickinson