I recently read the book that gives this thread its title - and found the name of a well-known Tolkien Society member in it! One of the people whom Ethan Gilsdorf got to know is Mark Egginton, incidentally also a member of the Downs, though I will not publicly announce his nick here.
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'Mercy!' cried Gandalf. 'If the giving of information is to be the cure of your inquisitiveness, I shall spend all the rest of my days in answering you. What more do you want to know?' 'The whole history of Middle-earth.. .'
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