"Balkan Times" by Medvidović - Tolkien/Medvidović theory

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by Slonsk

Do you know anything about Catholic end times eschatology?

Oh yes, and sadly various versions of Protestant ones. I'd not even discus such a subject in the PR. I've seen the Author's posts.

Edit:
After all, I've grown up in one part of Ireland and lived the rest in the other part and known many in both main "religious communities". I want to forget it.

I certainly don't want to read a pornographic book inspired by Catholic end times eschatology and promoting fringe Catholic conspiracies, such as the third secret of Fatima!

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by nana77

This I wasn't to have had ever seen, yet; thanks !

I'd not seen that either before writing on this thread, but it largely is the same as what I gather from reading Tolkien, Lewis and decent books on the subject.

Note that almost all the stuff Christopher Tolkien edited and published is from his father's pre-1949 material dating over 30 years. Tolkien did try to get The Silmarilion published, but the publisher wasn't happy with it. So it was posthumous. I'm not convinced that J.R.R had any intention of publishing any of the later stuff Christopher turned out. The Silmarillion is deliberately in a harder to access multiple writer style, because it's the stories people in the Hobbit and LOTR told each other, rather than a normal prequel.

[Slonsk]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

The first book has many fake five-star reviews on Goodreads, presumably written by the author and/or their friends. The style and content of those reviews is very similar, down to using identical phrases.

I suspect the OP in this thread is the author as well and so it really belongs in the self-promotion subforum.

The author is dead, killed for writing the book. They slit his throat and throwed him to the river.
There is no certain data when the book was published. Some say they were using the book as a secret communication channel back in the Cold War era.
In Slavic countries book was circulating decades ago for other purpouse then book-read. Its only recently translated which makes it even more creepy as many things in book seem prophetic.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by Slonsk

The author is dead, killed for writing the book. They slit his throat and throwed him to the river.
There is no certain data when the book was published. Some say they were using the book as a secret communication channel back in the Cold War era.
In Slavic countries book was circulating decades ago for other purpouse then book-read. Its only recently translated which makes it even more creepy as many things in book seem prophetic.

Yeah. Your sources for this claim, please?

And how do you explain this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/adam/commen..._from_croatia/

[nana77]

Originally Posted by Quoth

I'd not seen that either before writing on this thread, but it largely is the same as what I gather from reading Tolkien, Lewis and decent books on the subject.

Note that almost all the stuff Christopher Tolkien edited and published is from his father's pre-1949 material dating over 30 years. Tolkien did try to get The Silmarilion published, but the publisher wasn't happy with it. So it was posthumous. I'm not convinced that J.R.R had any intention of publishing any of the later stuff Christopher turned out. The Silmarillion is deliberately in a harder to access multiple writer style, because it's the stories people in the Hobbit and LOTR told each other, rather than a normal prequel.

The Silmarrillon was the last book I'd readed from him, when twenteen; I did not recalled it was partially posthumous, thanks again .

by 1923 Tolkien had almost completed The Book of Lost Tales, "it was almost as if he did not want to finish it", beginning instead to rewrite it; he suggests that Tolkien may have doubted if a publisher would take it, and notes that Tolkien was a perfectionist, and further that he was perhaps afraid of finishing as he wished to go on with his sub-creation, his invention of myth in Middle-earth

Wikipedia don't says he tried to publish it, but rather that he was meticulous about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkien%27s_legendarium

Tolkien's legendarium is the body of J. R. R. Tolkien's mythopoeic writing, unpublished in his lifetime, that forms the background to his The Lord of the Rings, and which his son Christopher summarized in his compilation of The Silmarillion

Ps: sorry for the image too big, I will re-read the rules.
Thanks.

[Slonsk]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Yeah. Your sources for this claim, please?

And how do you explain this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/adam/commen..._from_croatia/

Thats who?
Seems very young, can't be the author.
Besides, its obvious you have no knowledge on the book. You are just fast collecting information on google and quoting people who are writing BS for various reasons, thus dispersing their BS and false information.
You can have 10 people with name Adam Medvidović doing writing,

Source of my claims:

1. Central European Literary Classics" (series) – CEU Press
Authors: Imre Kertész, Danilo Kiš, Bohumil Hrabal, itd.

2. The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America, author Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassilijev

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[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by Slonsk

Thats who?
Seems very young, can't be the author.
Besides, its obvious you have no knowledge on the book. You are just fast collecting information on google and quoting people who are writing BS for various reasons, thus dispersing their BS and false information.
You can have 10 people with name Adam Medvidović doing writing,

Source of my claims:

1. Central European Literary Classics" (series) – CEU Press
Authors: Imre Kertész, Danilo Kiš, Bohumil Hrabal, itd.

2. The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America, author Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassilijev

Funny thing is, no search engine (and I don't mean only Google) has any results concerning this supposedly famous dead author and this supposedly well-known cult classic, other than the links to a self-published Kindle book and some attempts to promote said book in various forums and social media sites, apparently by the same person or persons. No Wikipedia entry, including the Croatian Wiki. No critical reviews by professional reviewers. No mention at all (except for the above-mentioned self-published book), nothing.

So, unless you can post links to your sources or photos of the pages if they're from a digitally unavailable printed book, I'd say your claims are not believable.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Funny thing is, no search engine (and I don't mean only Google) has any results concerning this supposedly famous dead author and this supposedly well-known cult classic, other than the links to a self-published Kindle book and some attempts to promote said book in various forums and social media sites, apparently by the same person or persons. No Wikipedia entry, including the Croatian Wiki. No critical reviews by professional reviewers. No mention at all (except for the above-mentioned self-published book), nothing.

So, unless you can post links to your sources or photos of the pages if they're from a digitally unavailable printed book, I'd say your claims are not believable.

Yes, it's simply promotion of the book. Fake claims

[Slonsk]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Yes, it's simply promotion of the book. Fake claims

If I gave you the source then you can simply open the book and check.
Or if your lasy to do it you can simply stop spreading lies and stop calling me a liar.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by Slonsk

If I gave you the source then you can simply open the book and check.

If this author and his book are so well known as you claim and the book has been circulating for decades, there surely exists some online source or reference to them - a web article, blog post, professional interview or review, entry in a web encyclopedia or database with birth and death dates, verified photo of the author, photocopy of a newspaper article, older print editions of the book in online bookstores or libraries etc. etc. So give us a link or two to this kind of information, please.

Or are you trying to say that for some reason the author, who you compared to Tolkien and praised as "the next big thing" is only mentioned in a couple of fairly obscure paper books and there's no trace of him available online, beyond the self-published "translation" at Amazon (with no mention of the translator or any reference to the original edition, I might add)? That's really not believable.