Or no Hobbits at all...

[Sauron the White]

WCH - YOu are an attorney for heavens sake.
Go look up the definition of NEW in any dictionary. I defy you or your mods or your purists or the Estate themselves to show how a tale which has been on my shelf for year after year can be advertised as "the first new novel by JRRTolkien in thirty years".

Have we truly entered the age of Newspeak where words are defined by idealogy or belief instead of their true meaning.

I am abiding by the rules here 100%.
It is your post which is

Scurrilous, beneath contempt, and inappropriate on this forum.

William - you are not in a court of law and I am not on trial here. I merely posted my thoughts on the highly questionable ethical decision and business practices of being party to advertising a book as NEW when it clearly was already in existence on many of our shelves. How is that any violation of the rules here?????????????