Your Daily Tolkien Ping! Coming from many sources, these articles cover many aspects of Tolkien and his literary works. If anyone would like for me to ping them directly when I post articles such as this let me know. Enjoy!
Your Daily Tolkien Ping! Coming from many sources, these articles cover many aspects of Tolkien and his literary works. If anyone would like for me to ping them directly when I post articles such as this let me know. Enjoy!
Later when Tolkien confronted an agent of Ballantine concerning the points above, "her voice rose several tones and she cried: 'But the man hadn't TIME to read the book!" Needless to say, Tolkien must have quickly seen the futility of pointing out to her or the artist that there were, as far as he knew, no two- or three-headed dragons in his Middle-earth.
A sad commentary on the state of American publishing, and a reminder of the efficacy of the saying "never judge a book by its cover".