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Originally Posted by DNSB
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OTOH, I have seen JRR Tolkien & J. R. R. Tolkien on covers. Even one where the publishers just used Tolkien on the cover with no initials (Unwin did this for one set). I'm not going to get into the covers where the name is rendered in what looks like a bastardized Tengwar font or the ones where an interpunct is used (J· R· R· Tolkien).
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Covers are someone's idea of art and publicity. They are not even consistent for the same author in the same era from the same publisher for the same Genre.