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Originally Posted by Mithalwen
And for all the bad press he gets, I don't think anyone has accused CRT of being a d8shonorable scholar.
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Well, I suspect someone, somewhere has made that accusation, though I can’t at the moment find a case on the web. I had a very critical review of J. R. R. Tolkien’s
The Fall of Arthur published in
Amon Hen and
Beyond Bree, mostly covering Arthurian matters missed by Christopher Tolkien. But Christopher Tolkien has never claimed to be an Arthurian scholar and it was not surprising to find him here at the limits of his scholarship. Arthurian studies is a morass.
I still very much respect Christopher Tolkien, in part for his readiness to admit that he has made errors in other matters.
So if I had written
Breaking The Tolkien Code, I think I would go with the theory that Christopher Tolkien did not know of these anagrams buried in
The Lord of the Rings. But the real problem is how unlikely the supposed anagrams are. That is the killer.