This remarkable document turned up in a milk crate of old LP’s at Out Of Time Records, in Ipswich, Suffolk, UK. The object had been deliberately inserted into the sleeve of Neil Diamond’s magnificent double LP, “Hot August Night”, perhaps in an attempt to hide it from smugglers and thieves; after all the illicit trade […]
Here’s my best attempt at restoring the title page of the GJoM to its original appearance, and then again into English. The numerals in the columns to the left of the articles are page numbers in a base twelve system. The duodecimal mode was devised by the elves, and seemingly preferred by the editors of
I found this remarkable document in Bundle o’ Books. It was hidden in a pile of old Mad magazines, but one corner was sticking out and the unmistakable Tengwar caught my eye. This lovely second-hand bookshop is located in Coolangatta, on the southern end of the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. I don’t know how
Where did Professor Tolkien find the Red Book of Westmarch? This question has vexed me since I first read the Lord of the Rings forty years ago. Was it secreted in the bowels of the Bodleian Library? Did Tolkien, then a spotty undergraduate, chance upon it while seeking a nook to nap in? Perhaps, as
