If Tolkien were still alive today...

[Zoe]

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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/sting.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Letters of Explanation

<blockquote>Quote:<hr> He was never a perfectionist, so he would inevitably keep venturing onwards.<hr></blockquote>

I beg to differ. If you read Humphry Carter's biography, you see cases of Tolkien going back and fixing things up, years after they were written, simply because someone wrote to him pointing out the discrepancy. I'm not talking about major flaws, either, but the sort of things no-one would really notice, minor flaws in genealogy or geography or whatever. If that isn't a sign of perfectionism, I don't know what is.

<blockquote>Quote:<hr> I wonder what his homepage would look like?<hr></blockquote>

Tolkien wasn't a major fan of technology - I doubt he'd even bother with a computer, let alone a homepage. After all, who needs a website when you've got books? <img src=wink.gif ALT="">

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