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Old 05-06-2014, 07:08 PM   #1
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Not allowed to read novels? Ah yes, that decadent Tolkien subverting another youth!
"Decadent Tolkien subverting another youth"? No, that's not the thought at all. It's just my parents think I should not do anything time consuming--even reading books other than my syllabus books, especially when I'm doing Masters with Physics. But I can't resist reading Tolkien.
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Old 05-06-2014, 07:53 PM   #2
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"Decadent Tolkien subverting another youth"? No, that's not the thought at all. It's just my parents think I should not do anything time consuming--even reading books other than my syllabus books, especially when I'm doing Masters with Physics. But I can't resist reading Tolkien.
"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."

So Jack Nicholson typed several thousand times before he tried to axe murder his family in The Shining.
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Old 05-06-2014, 08:44 PM   #3
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"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy."
And all Physics and no Tolkien makes you a Saruman.
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Old 05-06-2014, 10:28 PM   #4
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And all Physics and no Tolkien makes you a Saruman.
Makes Saruman Makes me Saruman?? Nooo!!
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Old 05-07-2014, 07:15 PM   #5
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It appears to be available as an e-book from Amazon.
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Old 05-07-2014, 09:17 PM   #6
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It appears to be available as an e-book from Amazon.
It didn't help. I had tried there too.
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Old 06-24-2014, 01:36 PM   #7
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It is available as a Kindle edition from amazon.com for $10.61 US. See http://www.amazon.com/Silmarillion-J...s=silmarillion . It is also available in a Kindle edition from amazon.uk for £5.89 UK. See http://www.amazon.co.uk/Silmarillion...s=silmarillion .

Kindle is not pdf format but it is a downloadable format readable on PCs.
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