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From: "Dennis Norton (PI)" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] (fan of J.R.R. Tolkien,including his Anglo-Saxon scholarship)
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 08:32:25 -0500
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Tolkein books are my favorite. I'll bet people on this list would happily
divide up the books you have not pulled genealogy out of so you could use it
as a SAMPLE for a future release. Ask for volunteers to do the basic work,
find another crew of "beta testers" to review and verify it, add it to what
you already have and there you are. The complete Hobbit et al genealogy.
I'll bet it would be a great marketing tool also. You'd sell a certain
percentage of TMG just to people who would love to have that genealogy.

Dennis


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Velke" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 2:18 AM
Subject: RE: [TMG] (fan of J.R.R. Tolkien, including his Anglo-Saxon
scholarship)


> Jim said:
>
> >One lister suggested that the data set of genealogies of hobbits, elves,
> >dragons,
> >and such be included as Sample #2 which I think would be a great idea. I
was
> >re-reading a bit more of Tolkien's "The Silmarillion" when I finally got
> >to bed last night,
> >flipped over to "Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age", looked at the
> >genealogies of Finwe etc to refresh my memory and thought - "Yes one day
I
> >must put all this on TMG!"
>
> Those who haven't read any of Tolkien's books recently may not remember
how
> much genealogy is in them. I used an old paperback version and decided to
> dog-ear every page that included genealogy and then go back to enter them
> (rather than try to do data entry while reading). I soon found that it
was
> a silly strategy because almost every page was dog-eared.
>
> (East coast beta testers are falling asleep at their chairs so I think
that
> we're breaking for the night)
>
> -Bob
>
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