Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes...

[Bêthberry]

Originally Posted by Child of the 7th Age

Bb,

You have said it very well in just a few words. Taken as a whole, I do not see the string of these revisions, even those dating from 1974 on, as "marring" Tolkien's core text or meaning. But neither do I see them as a great restoration of his original vision. That can never be totally captured.

Child, I hope you saw my edit that I had written those words and that post before I read yours and Sauce's good points.

As you may be able to tell, I have caught a bad case of the "collecting bug".

Ah, well, just to show a variety of collecting bugs, here are some things
I am thinking of collecting from the Bodleian library catalogue.

Well, not the journal. But the calendar and polar bear cards for the Tolkien art reprints maybe.

I think the question of how the editorial boards extend, with Sauce's query as to whether later heirs of the Tolkien estate will have the same right of ecitorialship as CT, is a good one. Those lawyers. always working out ways of more billable hours.