Article: 207213 of rec.arts.books.tolkien Path: uchinews!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!sn-inject-01!news.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: the softrat <<>> Newsgroups: rec.arts.books.tolkien Subject: e-text LotR - Foreward, paragrpah one Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 04:28:48 -0700 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Lines: 27 Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: newsabuse -aaatt- supernews -daht- com X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: uchinews rec.arts.books.tolkien:207213 Forwurd This tale grew in the telling, until it became a giant tome taxing anyone's ability to remember the plot or all of the epicene characters. It, like the Great War, rings in the themes of Life, Death, and Mother Hubbard's Cupboard and other trivia of ancient history which proceeded it. It began soon after my habit was acquired and before regurgitation in 1949; but I did not go on, and on, and on, and on, for I first wished to go on, and on, and on, ..., and on with its prequel, the fantasies and meanderings of the Elder Days, which had been disturbing my dope dreams for some years. I desired to do this because my therapist so advised, and I knew that no one would care the slightest about this phase of my recovery, especially since it was like reading fortunes in overcooked linguini and was begun to fabricate a fictitious 'history' for wagging tongues. (to be continued) the softrat email-to:softrat -aaatt- pobox -daht- com ---- You asked for this. Aren't you sorry now? the softrat email-to:softrat -aaatt- pobox -daht- com -- Let's jump off that bridge when we come to it.