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Originally Posted by Huinesoron
That's the stated goal of the book, though: "Edited by well-known Tolkien expert Brian Sibley, the book collects together J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings of the Second Age. Sibley has gone through the entire published works by Tolkien, and provides new introductions and commentaries to bring all the pieces of Tolkien’s original content together."
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I think it's those introductions which will make or break the book - and the advertisement. Because, besides them, it sounds like there is no new info in this book, it is just a rehash of already published material, just organized differently. Convenient, but not new. And I still maintain that people who did not find the various posthumously published works to their taste will still not find them so no mater what is written on the cover, and people who will expect this to be a written version of the Amazon show will be sorely disappointed... There's nothing wrong with drawing a line somewhere in the Tolkien library as "not your cup of tea", I know where my line lies, but I think it's a case of the apple rolling so far from the tree that the other apples won't taste alike, and it's misleading to sell them in the same barrel. But who knows, if I am proven wrong and we will find avid Tolkien readers who got into the books via the show and Aldarion and Erendis - I will only be glad to find myself mistaken.