Very cool!
I selfishly looked for Melian in it.
I once sat and typed 19 pages of my favorite quotes from the books. Computer crashed and I lost them all. Now I just underline them in my books. Find new ones every time I read them. The man was a genius.
True... but I have issues with the Tolkien estate, as I have mentioned here on FR. I posted the whole dictionary on line because they think it is trash... I cannot publish it to make any money off of it very jealous of copyright . . . 5 years work down the drain so I posted it on line.
I believe our differences arise from methodology. Tolkien was a brilliant linguist... I am an amateur. Since there were a number of terms in LOTR that had not been decoded, and the professionals had not tackled those items, I thought to use a more eclectic method - to psych out what was in Tolkien's mind when he created a name or term - e.g. Asfaloth. I clearly identify my analysis as speculation and state doubts.
Turns out some of my ruminations proved accurate. The Tolkien estate calls that 'luck'. Well, it is their property to do with as they please. I did offer to sell them my copyright if they wanted to rewrite the dictionary as they pleased... they scoffed. So, OK... separate paths.
Aw, shucks... now I am getting a swelled head!
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Here is another book I could not get published so posted on the web; it appears to be about evolution vs creation, but it is really more about the hubris of modern scholarship and how it closes its mind to new ideas.
Just as a quick example, Göbekli Tepe; the site in eastern Turkey pushes the origins of modern civilization back perhaps 7 thousand years prior to Sumer and Egypt. It is comprised of perhaps 20 Stonehenge-style temple monuments - admittedly a bit smaller than Stonehenge - with carved reliefs on the stone pillars. The current view on it is that it took hunter gatherers 2 millennia to build it.
I say that is ridiculous! Hunter gatherers were too busy hunting and gathering... moving their residence regularly to stay alive. For such an organized activity as Göbekli Tepe they would have to have leisure time, organized communal activities. I compare 2,000 years to the British Parliament House being started in the time of Julius Caesar and completed in time for WWII... look at all the mammoth changes in the world and in language. But academia is stuck on their calendar of civilizations.
Well, obviously we are in disagreement. So be it. How did they keep track of the plans for 2k years? ...without a written language? Total recall? Impossible since according to Darwin we are the smart ones due to how we have been growing smarter year by year.
Well, here I have gone and taken up a bunch of bandwidth to grind my hunter-gatherer axes... forgive... :^D