few questions about the reliablility of M-E guides - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Mithalwen · 08-10-2007, 02:21 AM

I no longer have my copies of either guide for reference (lent and never returned alas) but both were editions that predated UT - and by the time I got to UT I needed them less, it was the Silmarillion and its many similar names that I really needed them for -.... so the difference was less marked...and I can't really remember them distinctly - save that one was a nice hardback and the other a huge and battered paperback.

WIthout them I use the encyclopedia of Arda or the HoME index.

08-10-2007, 02:21 AM	#8
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,463	I no longer have my copies of either guide for reference (lent and never returned alas) but both were editions that predated UT - and by the time I got to UT I needed them less, it was the Silmarillion and its many similar names that I really needed them for -.... so the difference was less marked...and I can't really remember them distinctly - save that one was a nice hardback and the other a huge and battered paperback. WIthout them I use the encyclopedia of Arda or the HoME index. __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace