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Does anyone know about this unauthorized biography?

Eruonen
Half-elven


Jun 25 2015, 6:55pm

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Does anyone know about this unauthorized biography? Can't Post

J.R.R. TOLKIEN: CODEMAKER, SPY-MASTER, HERO 1ST/1ST, SIGNED AND NUMBERED- 100 SPECIAL COPIES

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Is it fanciful, unsubstantiated?

http://www.amazon.com/...graphy/dp/151183711X


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Eruonen
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Jun 25 2015, 9:06pm

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Hmm, much ado about nothing?? [In reply to] Can't Post

http://periannath.com/...greatly-exaggerated/

http://www.aiyailuvatar.org/...ark-codebreaker.html
"He ultimately declined a job at Bletchley."


squire
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Jun 25 2015, 9:49pm

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It looks like fun: meta-fantasy, as it were [In reply to] Can't Post

Tolkien was a fantasist, so I guess it's inevitable that some fans will fantasize about him.

Lewis and Currie have a somewhat shady or substandard reputation as Tolkien scholars, I believe. The two books of theirs that I've read, "Uncharted Realms..." and "Forsaken Realm..." had some good ideas and observations, in my opinion, but there was a lot more thin, half-baked, and generally wrong stuff as well.

For example, note that the cover art of the new Tolkien was a Spy book is listed as Ruth Lacon. That is actually Elizabeth Currie, the co-editor, who uses Lacon as a pseudonym when she produces her artwork - I don't know why. I believe it's quite probable that they wrote the book but published it under the name of a pseudonymous author with themselves, somewhat ridiculously, as 'consultants'.

I love the concept of JRRT as 007. We could have a lot of fun with that, but it wouldn't be the first time.





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Eruonen
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Jun 25 2015, 9:54pm

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I suspected as much. [In reply to] Can't Post

 


geordie
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Jun 26 2015, 5:20pm

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It's the other way round - [In reply to] Can't Post

Ms Lacon writes under the pseudonym of Elizabeth Currie.

As for the book, yes - the name 'Elansea' is 'L and C', that is, 'Lewis and Currie'. The book is published by 'Elansea', too. So, the signed book will contain three signatures, from two people.


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squire
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Jun 26 2015, 6:26pm

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Thanks [In reply to] Can't Post

I always think of you as fairly well connected in the UK Tolkien Society. Do you have any idea why L & C would publish this under an absurd pseudonym, if they have a real professional belief in their revisionist biography of Tolkien? As it stands, this whole thing reminds me of the kind of tabloid headlines you see in supermarket checkout lines ("Queen ordered Camilla's murder", "Blair a paid agent of the Reds", "Kim Jong Il revealed as alien life form", etc.).



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