What I find distressing about Day is his 'self-plagarization'.
Any cursory look at one of his many 'guides' will quickly show that they are all canabalized from each other.
After a couple books thus becomes imo shameless profiteering.
Having started work [with a few other wise souls] on a Tolkien guide myself, I have a darn good idea of just how incredibly hard to do such a project aiming for any serious degree of completeness that is. Since the advent of Home, I would call it nigh on impossible for one individual.
David Day's works go a long way toward proving me correct.
On the positive side, he often has some incredible artwork [ by others] included. So that alone may be worth the price of admission for some.
On the other hand, when he is not misreprensenting conjecture for fact [something I have encounterd in an entry on vampires[?!?] his writing I find far more palatable than the dry as dust Foster.
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