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From: bingham@mruxe.UUCP (B Bingham)
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Subject: Re: Proposal for new group for discussion of Tolkien
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Date: Thu, 9-May-85 00:21:11 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.  I'm sure many would find reading about his early work and
how it molded his writings decades later very interesting.  Net.books.jrrt
might be an appropriate name for the group. 

	However, newsgroups are usually created only after a discussion
has been going on for awhile in another group and people start complaining
about having to use their 'n' keys too often.  Therefore, I suggest that
unless there is an immediate demand from say, dozens of readers to create
the group right away, that we use net.books to start a discussion or two
and then see how it fares. 

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