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   XPost: rec.arts.books.tolkien, alt.fan.tolkien   
   From: bredband.net@ojevind.lang   
      
   "Noel Q. von Schneiffel"  skrev i   
   meddelandet   
   news:94586118-00a7-42cb-a1b3-5a82e04d293c@r34g2000vba.googlegroups.com...   
      
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   > THoTH is, of course, quintessential reading! I could really not   
   imagine talking to anyone who has not read it, as it would require me   
   to explain so many things I normally take for granted that my speech   
   would be not only twice as long-winded as usually - and as my students   
   know, I enjoy choosing the longer, but more scenic path through the   
   land of rhetorics over the straight, but dull highway - but also   
   unusually boring and annoying both for the listener and myself. The   
   book gives so many details about the blessed inspirations and strikes   
   of fate that lead to the creation of this magnificent work that it is   
   impossible not to stand in awe in front of it and celebrate the author   
   with great praise. The importance of this book cannot be overestimated   
   in any scholarly Tolkien debate and should be stressed in any   
   discussion about preferred reading and resource lists. Quite frankly,   
   I do not see how anyone could not read this book and still get up in   
   the morning without a sharp pain in his heart, where self-loathing   
   about one's own ignorance and failure to read this book tears like a   
   wild animal on the very essence of one's soul.   
      
   You speak the truth. I have not read "The History of the Hobbit", and my   
   emotions with regard to this negligence are exactly those descrived in your   
   post.   
      
   Öjevind   
      
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