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Mithalwen · 10-29-2014, 09:00 PM

The reason that it is novices and newcomers is because the Books forum is in principle, sacrosanct to serious discussionmthat can be supported by textual evidence. Speculative and opinion based topics were moved to N and. N. The name may not be ideal but its existance in the hectic days allowed books to be a haven for the sort of thread that needed reference to HoME and not get swamped by inevitably faster moving lighter topics.

I wouldn't be averse to movies becoming adaptations though as a devotee of the BBC radio versions of both LOTR and the Hobbit.

10-29-2014, 09:00 PM	#19
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,461	The reason that it is novices and newcomers is because the Books forum is in principle, sacrosanct to serious discussionmthat can be supported by textual evidence. Speculative and opinion based topics were moved to N and. N. The name may not be ideal but its existance in the hectic days allowed books to be a haven for the sort of thread that needed reference to HoME and not get swamped by inevitably faster moving lighter topics. I wouldn't be averse to movies becoming adaptations though as a devotee of the BBC radio versions of both LOTR and the Hobbit. __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace