The completed Tale of Gondolin was published 13 years ago?!

Originally Posted by davem

'Fundamentally based on' could mean pretty much anything. You can't cut & paste together bits of an author's work, written over a period of 4 or 5 decades, change bits that don't 'fit', with nothing more than your own opinion & 'personal taste' for guidance, whip it off to a Vanity publisher somewhere to knock out 50 copies & then just expect it to be accepted & authorised for publication by the Estate.

Then let the bastards read it first and decide! My point is, would it really hurt to consider it? I think it's rather closed-minded to summarily dismiss it without even reading it, and fans would probably buy it. You keep on about how "this fan could write this" or "that fan can edit that." Well they didn't. This guy did, and, when you own a text that's going for $4,500 without receiving a penny, it wouldn't exactly be blasphemy to try and profit off of it, now, would it?