David Day question

"Bill O'Meally" <OMeallyMD.DeleteThis@wise.rr.com> wrote in message news:<5XxCb.126699$Vu6.31239@twister.rdc-kc.rr.com>...
> "Stan Brown" <the_stan_brown.DeleteThis@fastmail.fm> wrote in message
> news:MPG.1a4444347bc1d97898b942@news.odyssey.net...
> > In article <4bb40450.0312121526.42c66c45.DeleteThis@posting.google.com> in
> > rec.arts.books.tolkien, zett <yzetta.DeleteThis@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >I was wondering how David Day ever got published in the first place.
> > >Didn't anyone try to stop him?
> >
> > How does anyone get published? A publisher thinks that the book will
> > make money, or bring prestige to the publisher, or both.
> >
> > I don't understand what you mean by someone trying to "stop him".
>
> I think he means the Tolkien estate.

Yes, that is exactly what I meant. To hear some tell it, the estate
is some kind of all powerful entity that won't let anyone do anything,
so I wondered how <mega sarcasm>the great scholar David Day</mega
sarcasm> got under their radar, so to speak.
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zett wrote:
> Yes, that is exactly what I meant. To hear some tell it, the estate
> is some kind of all powerful entity that won't let anyone do anything,
> so I wondered how <mega sarcasm>the great scholar David Day</mega
> sarcasm> got under their radar, so to speak.

Because, when he first published his books, there was no Tolkien Estate --
JRR was still alive and well back then.

Berislav
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"Berislav Lopac" <berislav.lopac.RemoveThis@dimedia.hr> wrote in message news:<bru9l6$4v8$1@ls219.htnet.hr>...
> zett wrote:
> > Yes, that is exactly what I meant. To hear some tell it, the estate
> > is some kind of all powerful entity that won't let anyone do anything,
> > so I wondered how <mega sarcasm>the great scholar David Day</mega
> > sarcasm> got under their radar, so to speak.
>
> Because, when he first published his books, there was no Tolkien Estate --
> JRR was still alive and well back then.
>
> Berislav

Ah! thank you. I didn't know Day had been around that long. Did JRRT
know about him, and if so, what did he think of his stuff?
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