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For the record, the book being sold here is _not_ the original
"Tolkien Companion" or even the "New Tolkien Companion", but the much
more recent "Complete Tolkien Companion". I haven't actually read
this book yet (reading reference books is hard going in any case), but
the few minutes of skimming that I have done has given me the
impression that it's a lot more reliable than its predecessors. And
it's certainly far more complete, as it was written after UT and HoMe.
I'm still a little hesitant to trust Tyler's research after seeing
what it produced the first time around (his claim that Sauron was an
Elf, for example). But I think he probably learned a bit from that
experience, and at the very least there aren't nearly as many
"unknowns" left in Middle-earth for him to mess up at this point.
(I also seem to recall that he finally decided to take a less "story
internal" tone in this edition, which is another big plus.)
Steuard Jensen<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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