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- From: mvoorhis@granite.WPI.EDU (Michael C Voorhis)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.tolkien
- Subject: Re: ME maps
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 19:27:56 GMT
- Organization: RSUC -- Russell Street UNIX & Caffeine
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- References: <BzGz7v.BnM@sci.kun.nl>> <MVOORHIS.92Dec18194511@granite.WPI.EDU> <BzM3MF.B28@sci.kun.nl>
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- In article <BzM3MF.B28@sci.kun.nl> heinr@sci.kun.nl (Hein Ragas) writes:
- >Same goes for me.
- > Hein.
- > (heinr@sci.kun.nl)
-
- I don't really care what ICE does in the lane of speculation, as long as
- they publish their material as such. They shouldn't publish their
- materials as fact, they should put a disclaimer on it or something! Sounds
- really stupid, of course, to put a disclaimer on a piece of fiction,
- stating that it is fictional with respect to another work of fiction which
- fanatics (like myself) research as if it were factual...
-
- I don't know. I just object to ICE adding noise to the clear flow of
- historical research on Middle Earth. People will think that all of ICE's
- MERP work is factual, when it isn't. Tell me, anyone with the ICE stuff--
- does ICE back up their work with citations from books? *or* do they state
- that something `is possible' or `is speculated' when they do NOT have actual
- supporting data? That would make me feel a little better...
-
- Mike
- (mvoorhis@wpi.wpi.edu)
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