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William Cloud Hicklin · 02-21-2013, 08:46 PM

Grotta's miserable "biography" is a piece of dog-merde. Good riddance. As Tolkien's friend Dorothy Sayers said, "This is not a book to be tossed aside lightly; this is a book to be hurled away with great force."

One review:

"I picked up the original version of this biography a few months
ago, and it was the most uninformed and ignorant waste of fifty cents I ever
saw. Grotta was terribly upset that the Tolkiens didn't let him rummage
through JRRTs possessions, but I doubt it would have done any good if he had --
it was clear that he not only hadn't read the Silmarillion, even the parts
available at the time, he hadn't even read the appendices of the Lord of the
Rings."

02-21-2013, 08:46 PM	#3
William Cloud Hicklin Loremaster of Annúminas Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,330	Grotta's miserable "biography" is a piece of dog-merde. Good riddance. As Tolkien's friend Dorothy Sayers said, "This is not a book to be tossed aside lightly; this is a book to be hurled away with great force." One review: "I picked up the original version of this biography a few months ago, and it was the most uninformed and ignorant waste of fifty cents I ever saw. Grotta was terribly upset that the Tolkiens didn't let him rummage through JRRTs possessions, but I doubt it would have done any good if he had -- it was clear that he not only hadn't read the Silmarillion, even the parts available at the time, he hadn't even read the appendices of the Lord of the Rings." __________________ The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.