Title: Just awful
Review: Fellow reviewer David Bratman nailed it. This book is just god-awful. His summary that this book has the soul of a PowerPoint presentation is perfect.It's clumsy and boring. It's packed with errors and suppositions.It has no detail for the Hobbit timeline, which might have been worthwhile.It has a ridiculous preface claiming that the book will "become a `must have' for all serious Tolkien fans." The kicker is that this preface is written by the author himself. Laughable. (The Amazon page for this book actually includes this entire preface as part of the book description. Check it out. Note too the author's pleading of the book's various supposed virtues. It's totally amateur hour.)It all came together for me when I caught this amateur hack citing as an authority the biggest Tolkien hack of them all: David Day.
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