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Originally Posted by lindil
Available in England is a thrice revised version of JEA Tylers Tolkien Companion now called the Complete Tolkien Comapanion.
Anyone have it, and if so what do you think? How well does it cover the HoM-E material?
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I don't think Foster's or Tyler's companions ever intended to fully cover HME. Hammond and Scull's
The JRR Tolkien Companion and Guide -- which includes two volumes,
Chronology and
Reader's Guide, does cover HME, especially the
Reader's Guide as far as collecting related material.
I actually have Foster's guide published before the 1977 Silmarillion, so that's based primarily on Tolkien-published material, and so to my mind ends up being like a good internal look at Middle-earth. Of course, one expects some things to be off, compared to what would later come to light, but I find it very interesting to read a companion that considers only (or at least mostly) what the Subcreator himself allowed his readership to read.
Anyway, again I doubt Foster or Tyler even claim to take up the difficult task of covering UT or HME, at least in full. Not that I know of anyway.