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geordie
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Sep 27 2014, 9:32am
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-here's a link to the page for Tolkien at the NYT. it includes an interview; and also reviews of many of Tolkien's books besides TH aand LotR
http://www.nytimes.com/...s/tolkien/index.html
Don't worry - no subscription is required. 
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BlackFox
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Sep 27 2014, 10:24am
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Lots of interesting stuff there
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Thank you for the link.
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squire
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Sep 27 2014, 11:47am
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It's quite interesting to read the reviews of the various books at the times they first came out. For instance, instead of reviewing the book itself, W. H. Auden spends most of his article on the newly-released The Return of the King meditating on the conflicts between quest fiction and the modern novel, trying to justify the literary worth of The Lord of the Rings as a finally-revealed single work. All he says about the book at hand is basically that Frodo succeeds!
He clearly assumed, and the editors of the Times agreed, that any specific review was pro forma. As I remember from my first reading, The Two Towers ends with the mother of all cliffhangers: Sam realizing that Frodo was alive but captured by the Enemy, along with the Ring. The audience for The Return of the King was well locked in by having read the first two volumes, and would have bought the third one with their last dollar, any NY Times review to the contrary be damned.
squire online:
RR Discussions: The Valaquenta, A Shortcut to Mushrooms, and Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
Lights! Action! Discuss on the Movie board!: 'A Journey in the Dark'. and 'Designing The Two Towers'.
Footeramas: The 3rd & 4th TORn Reading Room LotR Discussion and NOW the 1st BotR Discussion too! and "Tolkien would have LOVED it!"
squiretalk introduces the J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: A Reader's Diary
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