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[lindil]

Would there be more of how the character was created? (i.e. the picture on the postcard that Tolkien describes as the "origin of Gandalf"?)

At this point we are going ahead with a pilot project of the 'A's. [seelink below for a few of them].

The ideal scenario is that we land a deal for a 'guide' that will be similar to foster/tyler's but contain all of the references to all of the Legendarium. Foucusing though on the LotR and post LotR or 'canonical phase' with far less attention given to Lost Tales and the early Silm. there will be some limited commentary on the entries and a few entries like 'Cosmology' that cover general area's in detail.

If that goes well, we may then go for a project 2 that would be utterly exhaustive.
As above but going into maximum detail about early concepts and characters as well as late. Also much more in the way of speculative commentary and 'origins of X' such as Gandalf and Bilbo and such.


here is a link to a few SAMPLE ENTRIES.

[ March 05, 2003: Message edited by: lindil ]