Re: history of conlanging (aka Conlang influences, aka Lest darkness fall)

Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>
> On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Grandsire, C.A. wrote:
>
> >         My childhood copy of LotR also lacked the appendices. It was a copy for
> > children and the appendices were certainly considered to technical for
> > them (that's certainly completely false, but say that to editors who
> > want to save money buy selling less paper!). In fact, I never read the
> > appendices at all. When I'm back in France, I buy an original copy of
> > LotR with the appendices. I saw new editions released that seemed very
> > good.
> >
>
> Somewhere in our cellar there are our spare copies of LotR - I have
> a three-volume English paperback with complete appendices you can
> have when you visit next time. Last time we counted them, we had five
> complete copies (one Dutch, four English) - including two hardback
> (Irina's three volume set, and my one-volume one).
>
        Thank you very much, but I really want to buy my own! I'm trying to
build my own library :) . Maybe one day I will have enough books to have
bookshelves going at the top of a door like you :) .

> I think the appendices are the best part of it - I really, really
> loved the chronologies, and the scripts.
>
        I think the copy I read had the chronologies, but that's all I ca
remember.

> Boudewijn Rempt  | http://denden.conlang.org
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