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- From: alderson@cisco.com (Rich Alderson)
- Subject: Re: Q: 'Illustrated Encyc. of Middle Earth' available?
- In-Reply-To: friesend@jester.usask.ca (Darryl Friesen)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan4.015148.18356@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Originator: alderson@leland.Stanford.EDU
- Sender: ?@leland.Stanford.EDU
- Reply-To: alderson@cisco.com (Rich Alderson)
- Organization: Cisco Systems (MIS)
- References: <1992Dec29.233133.29017@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov> <1hsj0nINNiib@access.usask.ca>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 93 01:51:48 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- In article <1hsj0nINNiib@access.usask.ca>, friesend@jester (Darryl Friesen) writes:
- >Len Charest (charest@Aig.Jpl.Nasa.Gov) wrote:
- >> While shopping in Boston last week I came across a large coffee table type
- >> book whose title was *something like* 'The Illustrated Encyclopedia of
- >> Middle Earth'.
-
- <remainder deleted>
-
- >It's called "Tolkien: The Illustrated Encyclopaedia" (nope, that's not
- >a typo; the 'ae' are joined (I forget what that's called)) by David Day.
- >
- >From the inside cover:
- >
- >Collier Books
- >Macmillan Publishing Company
- >866 Third Avenue
- >New York, NY 10022
- >
- >ISBN: 0-02-031275-X
- >
- >I don't think its out of print yet (it's a 1992 first edition).
-
- It's a re-working of his (late 70's) _A Tolkien Bestiary_, adding the
- information from writings later than _The Silmarillion_.
-
- Interesting, if mostly because it sometimes puts into a single entry things
- which are scattered throughout the texts. In other ways, it's irritating--
- pointy-eared Hildebrant-style elves and the like.
-
- Too bad it's in expensive hardcover.
- --
- Rich Alderson 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take
- such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
- --J. R. R. Tolkien,
- alderson@leland.stanford.edu _The Lost Road_
-