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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Anchorman on January 17, 2020, 09:40:04 AM

Title: Death of an editor. .......
Post by: Anchorman on January 17, 2020, 09:40:04 AM

......But what an editor! Without him, we wouldn't have LOTR as we know it today, nor the Silmarillion, amongst others. https://www.harpercollins.co.uk/corporate/press-releases/comment-from-harpercollins-uk-on-the-death-of-christopher-tolkien-editor-author-and-son-of-j-r-r-tolkien/

Title: Re: Death of an editor. .......
Post by: jeremyp on January 19, 2020, 08:42:24 PM

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Christopher was an editor from the age of 5, catching inconsistencies in his father’s bedtime tales, and was promised tuppence by his father for every mistake he noticed in The Hobbit.

What a brilliantly healthy attitude to instil in your children.

Title: Re: Death of an editor. .......
Post by: ad_orientem on January 22, 2020, 04:31:51 PM

Yes, the Silmarillion especially. Read them all roughly about once a year. Will have to read them again pronto.

Title: Re: Death of an editor. .......
Post by: jeremyp on January 22, 2020, 07:10:35 PM

Quote from: ad_orientem on January 22, 2020, 04:31:51 PM

Yes, the Silmarillion especially. Read them all roughly about once a year. Will have to read them again pronto.

I haven't read the Silmarillion but LotR could really haver done with editing for tedium.

Title: Re: Death of an editor. .......
Post by: Anchorman on January 22, 2020, 08:23:13 PM

Quote from: jeremyp on January 22, 2020, 07:10:35 PM

I haven't read the Silmarillion but LotR could really haver done with editing for tedium.

I agree - with the author himself, in his introduction to LOTR....he said it was too short.