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New Tolkien book (of a sort): The Bovadium Fragments

noWizardme
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A new Tolkien book (of a sort) published on October 9th. - publisher's web page here: https://harpercollins.co.uk/...riant=55509575926139
A review by Shaun Gunner probably explains handily enough what it is about:

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�The End of Bovadium� (or called �The Bovadium Fragments�) was likely written in the last 1950s and early 1960s and follows on from Mr. Bliss as a comment on the use of automobiles. Humphrey Carpenter made brief reference to it in J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography: ��The Bovadium Fragments� (perhaps composed early in the nineteen-sixties) is a parable of the destruction of Oxford (Bovadium) by the motores manufactured by the Daemon of Vaccipratum (a reference to Lord Nuffield and his motor-works at Cowley) which block the streets, asphyxiate the inhabitants, and finally explode.�
The Bovadium Fragments was not published during Tolkien�s life, and Clyde S. Kilby explained why: �It was full of the inventiveness to be expected of Tolkien. [.] I judged that it had two elements that would make it unpublishable. One was the more than liberal use of Latin, and the other the probability that a reader�s eye would focus on its playfulness rather than its serious implications. Actually it was an early comment on the commercialization of our world.� This story was not previously published due to Christopher Tolkien�s focus on his father�s writings set in Middle-earth and Arda.

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"I am not made for querulous pests." Frodo 'Spooner' Baggins.

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CuriousG
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We trees drop limbs on cars for a reason.

noWizardme
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Or if a tree is feeling very rock and roll, it can... [In reply to]	Can't Post

Or if a tree is feeling very rock 'n' roll, it can chuck berry.
Quickbeam would certainly do that, I think.
I wonder whether Our Favourite Author was an early proponent of the Oxford Congestion Charge. ...
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Toll-keen, you see.... Evil

Evil

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"I am not made for querulous pests." Frodo 'Spooner' Baggins.

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