From: Stan Brown Newsgroups: rec.arts.books.tolkien Subject: Is it a trilogy? (Re: Wikipedia articles on Middle-earth) Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 07:06:25 -0400 Organization: Oak Road Systems Message-ID: References: <1178b6d1.0307220232.55c8ab42@posting.google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Newsreader: MicroPlanet Gravity v2.60 X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 44 Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!news-ge.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!priapus.visi.com!news-out.visi.com!petbe.visi.com!news-out1.nntp.be!propagator2-sterling!In.nntp.be!gail.ripco.com!news-feed.riddles.org.uk!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-06!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch rec.arts.books.tolkien:119839 In article <1178b6d1.0307220232.55c8ab42@posting.google.com> in=20 rec.arts.books.tolkien, Conrad Dunkerson=20 wrote: >LotR is technically not a trilogy, I agree with you. But Tolkien himself tended to forget this. Not a trilogy: Letter 149: "Trilogy", which is not really accurate Letter 165: P.S. The book is not of course a "trilogy". Is a trilogy: Letter 163: I wrote the Trilogy as a personal satisfaction Letter 163: to talk publicly about the Trilogy Letter 163: the beginning of the legendarium, of which the Trilogy=20 is part (the conclusion Letter 163: but for whom when grown up I think I should never have=20 got the Trilogy published Letter 252: but some of it (the N=FAmen=F3rean-Atlantis theme) got into=20 my trilogy eventually. Ambiguous: Letter 159: Being a man of immense power and industry, his=20 "trilogy"; was finished much sooner amidst much other work; but at=20 last my slower and more meticulous (as well as more indolent and=20 less organized) machine has produced its effort. --=20 Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Cortland County, New York, USA http://OakRoadSystems.com Tolkien FAQs: http://Tolkien.slimy.com (Steuard Jensen's site) Tolkien letters FAQ: http://users.telerama.com/~taliesen/tolkien/lettersfaq.html FAQ of the Rings: http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/ringfaq.htm Encyclopedia of Arda: http://www.glyphweb.com/arda/default.htm more FAQs: http://oakroadsystems.com/tech/faqget.htm