![]() ![]() Rather than a narrative, it's really a sort of organized memory dump of Tolkien's filing cabinet. This book ("Unfinished Tales" by JRR Tolkien, $15 from Houghton Mifflin) is definitely not a book for a general readership, nor even for the mass Tolkien consumer, who thinks that Lord of the Rings is a swell story, but all that linguistic and historical stuff is just a lot of window-dressing. While I haven't read even half of it, I think I've read enough to produce a helpful review, so here goes. ![]() (Original Review, )The new Tolkien book is out. ![]()
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