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J.R.R. Tolkien's son Christopher spent more than 30 years piecing together fragments his father left behind. Now readers can learn what happened 6,000 years before Bilbo Baggins found the One Ring.
  • yay!

    I was just browsing the appendices to the Ring trilogy last night, thinking that I might read the Silmarillion again since it's been years. I had no idea a "new" book was forthcoming. Looks like a summer of good reading lies ahead. This was a great review, too. Thanks Salon for assigning a writer who seems to have a genuine interest in and knowledge of thinks Tolkien.

    Farnsworth - Just out of curiousity, where in the first movie did you think that Gandalf was made out to be a fool? I'm not being argumentative, I simply can't remember that scene.