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foul_dwimmerlaik t1_itf36ea wrote

Great! Now you can start on the Book of Lost Tales I and II and learn all about first-draft Sauron, who was a giant demonic housecat.

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Jealous-Ambassador-8 t1_itf3itc wrote

I started reading The Book of Lost Tales in 1982.

I still haven’t gotten past Tinuviel.

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mongreldogchild t1_itfyllh wrote

My father gave up trying to read it to me (when I was a child) and for himself decades ago. You wouldn't happen to be a grumpy old Greek man named Sotiris, would you?

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pierzstyx t1_itfft8j wrote

The Tale of Middle Earth Rapunzel is great!

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imapassenger1 t1_itfbuj8 wrote

Was it published that far back? I thought it was new when I read it in about 1991. It's the only one I read after Unfinished Tales.

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Jealous-Ambassador-8 t1_itfdssi wrote

Pretty sure I got it from the library in middle school. So between 80 and 83…

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imapassenger1 t1_itff12m wrote

I've got out my copy of Unfinished Tales and that was published in 1982. Maybe that was it.

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Jealous-Ambassador-8 t1_itffneo wrote

Possibly? I don’t have my copy on hand so I can’t check. But I’m pretty sure it was Lost Tales.

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pierzstyx t1_itffyfz wrote

Tevildo really isn't anything like Sauron. That would be Thu the Necromancer and Lord of Werewolves. Tevildo does show us just how much Tolkien hated cats though. Dude was very much a dog person.

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foul_dwimmerlaik t1_itgvvej wrote

He occupies the same narrative space as Sauron (keeping Beren in his dungeons/kitchen to be rescued by Luthien and Huan) so I think it counts. It’s just too funny an idea.

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