New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published

Re:New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published by ghostbrainalpha on Thursday June 23, 2022 @01:10PM (#31852133)

I am fascinated by Tolkien's writing process and mind as well. I recently read the article about "Bamfurlong", its a place in the books that didn't really need a name. Nothing about the name influences the story at all, the name didn't even appear in the first edition.

But he HAD to go back and add that name in later editions because this place and its history was SOOO real to him.

For every story we got from him, he must have built a hundred more in his imagination of that place.

http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Bamfurlong

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Re:New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published by spywaregorilla on Thursday June 23, 2022 @04:03PM (#31854466)

> Bamfurlong was a farm in the boggy region of the Marish in the eastern Shire. It was the home of Farmer Maggot

> Tolkien says that the name "Maggot" was a Hobbitish name whose meaning has been lost in history. Maggot should not be understood as the English word maggot or larva. The similarity is coincidental.

Another frankly incomprehensible example.

"This guy's name was Maggot. Readers will probably mistakenly assume that's an artistic choice, but unfortunately that's his name and I, as the author, have no agency to change that"

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