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Old 02-08-2002, 08:02 AM   #4
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Methinks someone is trying to teach a few lazy would-be scholars a lesson...
It's a masterpiece of misdirection, though: it's sufficiently similar that a (very) quick skim-read (eg reading the chapter headings and the beginnings and ends of the volumes) wouldn't expose the fraud, but when you get down to brass tacks it's a load of codswallop. The introduction is a classic:

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I'm sure the following synopsis and suggestions will help you make the grades you obviously deserve.
And the essay titles are brilliant, even making the historical tie-ins spurious:

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Remembering that Tolkien wrote this book even as Queen Elizabeth was taking the throne of England when King Edward VIII abdicated and married a commoner
Classic stuff.
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