UK police hold man with possible Tolkien forgeries - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

davem · 02-03-2011, 04:16 PM

http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2011...ien-forgeries/

A Police spokesman has announced they are also searching for his accomplice, an octogenarian living somewhere in France, who is suspected of pretending to be JRR Tolkien himself, re-writing the famous author's works, & of threatening behaviour towards innocent writers.

Galadriel55 · 02-03-2011, 05:00 PM

The website wouldn't load on my computer for some reason.

How can someone pretend to be someone else who has been dead for years?
And how can he re-write that person's works and pass it off as his own?
And who'd fall for it? The logic here escapes me.

I mean, if I told you I was Newton and gave you an account of an apple hitting my head, would you believe me?

Pitchwife · 02-03-2011, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Galadriel55

How can someone pretend to be someone else who has been dead for years?
And how can he re-write that person's works and pass it off as his own?

Easy. There's still people out there to whom it is news that there's a book to PJ's movies, let alone by an author who died decades ago... Or so I suppose.

Mithalwen · 02-03-2011, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Galadriel55

The website wouldn't load on my computer for some reason.

How can someone pretend to be someone else who has been dead for years?
And how can he re-write that person's works and pass it off as his own?
And who'd fall for it? The logic here escapes me.

I mean, if I told you I was Newton and gave you an account of an apple hitting my head, would you believe me?

He isjust sniping at Christopher Tolkien again, Galadriel.

Pitchwife · 02-03-2011, 05:22 PM

*headpalmfacedesk* Of course...

Nerwen · 02-03-2011, 05:33 PM

You should have saved it for April 1, davem.

davem · 02-04-2011, 12:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Mithalwen

He isjust sniping at Christopher Tolkien again, Galadriel.

I was - in fact I just yesterday received a long letter from the Tolkien Estate solicitors telling me in no uncertain terms to stop the sniping (well, actually, the letter was about half a page long, but appended to it was a 50,000 word commentary on it by Christopher Tolkien, a short essay on the etymology of 'sniping' & a photo of a wild boar named Clive).

Fortunately, just this morning I received a revised letter in which the emphatic 'Do not snipe at Christopher Tolkien' was changed to the milder 'You need not snipe at Christopher Tolkien'.

02-03-2011, 04:16 PM	#1
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Galadriel55 Blossom of Dwimordene Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: The realm of forgotten words Posts: 10,382	The website wouldn't load on my computer for some reason. How can someone pretend to be someone else who has been dead for years? And how can he re-write that person's works and pass it off as his own? And who'd fall for it? The logic here escapes me. I mean, if I told you I was Newton and gave you an account of an apple hitting my head, would you believe me? __________________ You passed from under darkened dome, you enter now the secret land. - Take me to Finrod's fabled home!... ~ Finrod: The Rock Opera

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