Yuck! Could be worse!

In message <news:5v5l17F1k8mlkU2@mid.individual.net>
"Öjevind Lång" <bredband.net RemoveThis @ojevind.lang> spoke these staves:
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> In fact, Christopher Tolkien has acknowledged how helpful Foster's
> guide has been to him on many occasions when he's been preparing
> his father's writings for publication.

Surely -- the effort involved is staggering, but the result is
definitely helping a lot of people.

Actually Rowling has acknowledged using the HP Lexicon when writing
away from home and without her own notes.

If it seems that I don't acknowledge the amount of careful (and
loving!) work involved in a reference work such as Foster's or the HP
Lexicon, I need to emphasize that I am awed that anyone would do it and
I think their effort deserves all the praise we can give it.

The point, however, is that such a reference work is only really useful
if the author doesn't add anything new (think of David Day), and hence
it is, IMO, doubtful whether it is literary criticism in the usual
sense of the word. Published with the permission of the holder of the
copyright, however, there is no question of fair use (all use with the
permission of the copyright holder is 'fair', I'd say), and we can
praise the work as it deserves.

--
Troels Forchhammer
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Please put [AFT], [RABT] or 'Tolkien' in subject.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another
profound truth.
- Niels Bohr

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Flame of the West wrote:
>
>> Derek Broughton wrote:
>>> Flame of the West wrote:
>>>
>>>> Zorag wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> What about this particular work rankled her? There has already been so
>>>>> much third party Harry Potter material published, not to mention the
>>>>> countless HP reference websites.
>>>> She wants to do an encyclopedia herself; therefore, apparently, no one
>>>> else must be allowed to. What a piece of work she is.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.mywire.com/pubs/AP/2007/11/01/4846662?extID=10051
>>> My god! You mean _she_ wants to be the one to profit from her own
>>> imagination. The evil witch...
>> This isn't about profit, fanboi:
>
> "fanboi" ???? F*** off
>

You sure are thin-skinned for someone who's so quick to sarcasm. If
you're going to dish it out on the Internet, you'd better be able to
take it.


-- FotW

Reality is for those who cannot cope with Middle-earth.