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davem
02-03-2011, 04:16 PM
http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2011/02/03/42015-uk-police-hold-man-with-possible-tolkien-forgeries/

A Police spokesman has announced they are also searching for his accomplice, an octogenarian living somewhere in France, who is suspected of pretending to be JRR Tolkien himself, re-writing the famous author's works, & of threatening behaviour towards innocent writers.
:p
Galadriel55
02-03-2011, 05:00 PM
The website wouldn't load on my computer for some reason. :(

How can someone pretend to be someone else who has been dead for years?
And how can he re-write that person's works and pass it off as his own?
And who'd fall for it? The logic here escapes me. :confused: I mean, if I told you I was Newton and gave you an account of an apple hitting my head, would you believe me?
Pitchwife
02-03-2011, 05:04 PM
How can someone pretend to be someone else who has been dead for years?
And how can he re-write that person's works and pass it off as his own?

Easy. There's still people out there to whom it is news that there's a book to PJ's movies, let alone by an author who died decades ago... Or so I suppose.
Mithalwen
02-03-2011, 05:19 PM
The website wouldn't load on my computer for some reason. :(

How can someone pretend to be someone else who has been dead for years?
And how can he re-write that person's works and pass it off as his own?
And who'd fall for it? The logic here escapes me. :confused: I mean, if I told you I was Newton and gave you an account of an apple hitting my head, would you believe me?

He isjust sniping at Christopher Tolkien again, Galadriel.
Pitchwife
02-03-2011, 05:22 PM
*headpalmfacedesk* Of course...
Nerwen
02-03-2011, 05:33 PM
You should have saved it for April 1, davem.
davem
02-04-2011, 12:43 AM
He isjust sniping at Christopher Tolkien again, Galadriel.

I was - in fact I just yesterday received a long letter from the Tolkien Estate solicitors telling me in no uncertain terms to stop the sniping (well, actually, the letter was about half a page long, but appended to it was a 50,000 word commentary on it by Christopher Tolkien, a short essay on the etymology of 'sniping' & a photo of a wild boar named Clive).

Fortunately, just this morning I received a revised letter in which the emphatic 'Do not snipe at Christopher Tolkien' was changed to the milder 'You need not snipe at Christopher Tolkien'.:p