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There will never be nothing left to discuss about Tolkien or Middle-earth. That's all that I have to say.
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Especially since the editors of
Vinyar Tengwar seem determined to strech out the publication of Tolkien's Linguistic writings [and historical scraps [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]] for as long a period as it took to see all of the Dead Sea Scrolls!
Actually, in the last few years we have seen a whole new level of scholarship in Tolkiendom, with Flieger's
A question of Time and
Splintered Light 2nd ed., Oxford Philology Prof.[!] Tom Shippey's
Author of the Century and
THe Road to Middle-Earth: How JRRT created a New Mythology 2nd ed. and the compilation of essays in
Tolkien's Legendarium. Not too mention Tolkien's rather major essay [in density and import, if not length] Osanwe-Kenta and the River and Beacon hills of Gondor. Heck, I am having a hard time catching up with everything I can afford to get!
Of course ingesting is one thing, assimilating another and actually participating in communal discourse another altogether...