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Originally Posted by Barcey
Additional trivia on the Silmarillion.
Christopher Tolkien invited a university student he'd met in Manitoba to come to Oxford and help him compile his father's fragmented works into the Silmarillion and that was Guy Gavriel Kay. GGK credit's that year for influencing him to become a writer which is a great thing... especially because the alternative appears to have been a lawyer.  |
Thanks for mentioning him. Kay is one of my favorite fantasy writers. _The Fionnavar Tapestry_ is one of the few works in any genre that has made me cry, and _Tigana_ is one of my favorite fantasy novels.
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Dennis