On a "Wiki Talk" page at medlibrary (I'm not a Wiki contributor so am not entirely sure how that works!) there is a brief discussion of this entry, in which...
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marywilt
Dec 31, 2008 9:05 pm
I sent this a few days ago but it apparently was not posted on the list (perhaps I'm being moderated for bad behavior? Grin). If it was moderated, can the mods...
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fladnag1939
Jan 1, 2009 6:18 pm
"Above all shadows rides the Sun, And Stars forever dwell: I will not say the Day is done, Nor bid the Stars farewell." -- Tolkien, "Return of the King",...
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Doug Kane
voronwe1
Jan 1, 2009 9:55 pm
It has been pointed out to me that there is a striking similarity between Tolkien's monogram, and a character in the Chinese and Japanese alphebets. Here is a...
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hoytrand
Jan 2, 2009 4:42 am
I have published the seventh issue of my online myth magazine Journey to the Sea [journeytothesea.com]. This issue includes an interview I conducted with Ted...
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Joe Christopher
jchristopher@...
Jan 2, 2009 3:22 pm
One of my daughters found a "C. S. Lewis Tea Blend" produced by Tea Embassy, 900 Rio Grande St., Austin, Texas 78701; ph. 512-330-9991, fax 512-480-8202, ...
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David Bratman
dbratman1
Jan 2, 2009 4:04 pm
"Steep 3-5 minutes in boiling water. Goes well with a book." No, no, not the book in the boiling water!...
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David Emerson
emerdavid1
Jan 2, 2009 5:49 pm
... Oh, the humanity! emerdavid ________________________________________ PeoplePC Online A better way to Internet http://www.peoplepc.com...
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John Meyers
johncmeyers
Jan 2, 2009 7:08 pm
But how else are we to boil the book down to it's essence? Can we at least put the really good ones into the stew? John...
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hoytrand
Jan 2, 2009 9:08 pm
While updating some pages on the mythsoc.org web site (I am the webmaster steward, for those that don't know), I stumbled across a list of competitors for the...
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Margaret Dean
margdean56
Jan 6, 2009 6:20 pm
Well, a lot of digging and hauling about of heavy boxes in the garage turned up my Westmarch Chronicles (along with a lot of other Tolkien zines), but my...
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David Bratman
dbratman1
Jan 6, 2009 6:45 pm
I dug out my fairly extensive run (v. 2 no. 4, Nov/Dec 1978 to v. 6 no. 2, July/Aug 1982, which I think was the last issue) and I couldn't find it either. I'd...
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John D Rateliff
sacnoth32
Jan 6, 2009 7:54 pm
Well, four people have now searched their collections and not come up with it, so I'm left to conclude that I'm wrong about its having seen print there....
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David Bratman
dbratman1
Jan 6, 2009 8:19 pm
... Thank you, and that does remind me of something in my own bibliography that mystifies me. A number of online sources credit me with a non-fiction piece in...
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David Emerson
emerdavid1
Jan 6, 2009 9:22 pm
... Several possibilities occur to me: (1) The person or persons involved in the recent C.S.Lewis Wikipedia hoax are at it again. (2) You did write it, but it...
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juliet@...
momofjillybean
Jan 6, 2009 11:05 pm
... Where in Texas? If it's in the DFW area, maybe I can get hold of it. Julie...
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Wayne G. Hammond
wghammond2
Jan 7, 2009 3:34 am
... It's almost certainly a coincidence. Although Tolkien had an early liking for Japanese prints, we've recorded no interest in or study of Chinese or ...
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David Bratman
dbratman1
Jan 7, 2009 4:34 am
More likely, they quoted from something I'd written elsewhere and reprinted (or printed for the first time, if it came from a private letter) it without a note...
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Doug Kane
voronwe1
Jan 7, 2009 6:15 am
Thanks, Wayne and Christina! _____ From: mythsoc@yahoogroups.com [mailto:mythsoc@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Wayne G. Hammond Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009...
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Croft, Janet B.
jbcroft73019
Jan 7, 2009 3:50 pm
Actually, Tolkien's monogram reminds me very distantly of the signature symbols used by Aubrey Beardsley http://www.wormfood.com/savoy/salome/154.html (I know...
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Margaret L. Carter
margvamp
Jan 7, 2009 5:38 pm
I've heard of MIDNIGHT ZOO but don't remember ever having read it or submitted to it. So I can't tell you anything about the magazine, except that it exists. ...
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David Bratman
dbratman1
Jan 7, 2009 7:10 pm
Texas A&M (not too close, but thanks anyway). Also University of Mississippi, Cornell, and the Library of Congress. I haven't checked for individual issue...
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Joan.Marie.Verba@...
ftl_publicat...
Jan 7, 2009 7:44 pm
New Tolkien for Harper Collins http://www.thebookseller.com/news/73781-new-tolkien-for-harpercollins.html...
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John D Rateliff
sacnoth32
Jan 7, 2009 7:55 pm
... Afraid I don't know anyone at any of the four libraries listed as having MIDNIGHT ZONE -- perhaps Mike Glyer, as a fellow semiprozine editior, might know...
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John D Rateliff
sacnoth32
Jan 7, 2009 8:02 pm
Wonderful! Some of us have been waiting for this one for a long time. Let's see anyone try to maintain that "Tolkien was an escapist" after the back-to-back...
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David Bratman
dbratman1
Jan 7, 2009 10:07 pm
... Oct/Nov 2008 (v. 45, no. 10-11; whole no. 319-20), p. [8]-[9]. Marion Van Loo is the membership secretary and handles these things; she's reachable at...
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Merlin DeTardo
not_thou
Jan 8, 2009 11:16 pm
... << Let's see anyone try to maintain that "Tolkien was an escapist" after the back-to-back double dose of Turin + Sigurd! >> Wouldn't Tolkien himself agree...
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Wayne G. Hammond
wghammond2
Jan 9, 2009 2:44 am
... I doubt that there was any Oriental influence on the monogram, direct or indirect. Tolkien's is unlike Beardsley's or Whistler's devices, but in the same...
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John D Rateliff
sacnoth32
Jan 9, 2009 4:30 am
... I haven't seen the book itself, but here's a piece on it by a book reviewer for one of the two local Seattle papers (THE SEATTLE TIMES, the one that's...
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John Davis
mcxg46
Jan 9, 2009 9:56 am
Which is to say escapism as an active form of protest? Reminds me of one of the Linklater quote: "withdrawing in disgust is not the same as apathy". John ... ...
