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Telchar · 07-25-2002, 10:39 AM

Well I can to some degree agree to what you're saying, but we have to take into account that Carpenter might have feeled limited by the fact that A: The personal information about JRRT, he had to get mostely from the family - so he didn't want to burn any bridges there, and B: that he was planning on writing Letters afterwards - a point on which he had to be on REALLY good terms with the family.

I do agree that Carpenters Biography could be fuller, and that it is not the best bio ever written - But I will however still claim that it is by far the best written about JRR Tolkien.

Cheers T

07-25-2002, 10:39 AM	#5
Telchar Stonehearted Dwarf Smith Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Posts: 2,247	Well I can to some degree agree to what you're saying, but we have to take into account that Carpenter might have feeled limited by the fact that A: The personal information about JRRT, he had to get mostely from the family - so he didn't want to burn any bridges there, and B: that he was planning on writing Letters afterwards - a point on which he had to be on REALLY good terms with the family. I do agree that Carpenters Biography could be fuller, and that it is not the best bio ever written - But I will however still claim that it is by far the best written about JRR Tolkien. Cheers T __________________ Anar Kaluva Tielyanna.