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Posted by MIKE STH on 12-27-2001 12:59 AM:

e-book ~ Tolkien?

Has anyone found a source for the Trilogy in e-book form? After seeing the movie, I want to revisit the books, but would prefer the e-book format. Can't say how old I was when I first read them, but it was a looooong time ago..

Thanks in advance

Posted by dirwin on 12-27-2001 06:04 AM:

I downloaded them in a gigantic e-book collection once. If you'd like, I can e-mail them to you. I wasn't able to find it online anywhere. If you have a fast connection, the e-book collection's file name was "1400 SciFi, Fantasy, and Classic eBooks.zip". I found it on Morpheus, and several users had it. However, it is upwards of 170 MB for the whole thing.

Ask me and I'll e-mail it to you. Of course, this thread will likely get locked once a moderator reads it . E-mail me if you'd like a copy.

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Posted by pgroves on 12-27-2001 09:14 PM:

Well I have it in palm format...works in isolo, wordsmith, tomeraider. Its 1.4meg drop me a mail if you want this one.

Also correct me if im wrong but isn ther something about 50+ year old books and copyright????

Posted by Yorick on 12-27-2001 09:46 PM:

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Originally posted by pgroves
Also correct me if im wrong but isn ther something about 50+ year old books and copyright????

Pre-1977, copyrights had to be renewed at regular intervals or they would be lost. Post-1977, it's the life of the author +50 years (I think it's 50 years, I'd go look it up but I don't have that much time this afternoon).
The executor of the Tolkien estate is his son, Christopher Tolkien, who from all reports (and a documentary I recently saw aboput Tolkien) is a major tight-ass and is super-protective of his father's works. If he had his way, the movies would not have been made save that his father sold off the rights in the 60's.

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Posted by pgroves on 12-27-2001 10:49 PM:

Yep that sounds like what I was reffering to. Thanks for the good info Yorick

Posted by MIKE STH on 12-28-2001 01:43 AM:

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Originally posted by Yorick

The executor of the Tolkien estate is his son, Christopher Tolkien, who from all reports (and a documentary I recently saw aboput Tolkien) is a major tight-ass and is super-protective of his father's works.

This is readily apparent when you spend 4 hours on google trying to piece together the whole trilogy.

The son is definately a hinderance. Heck, I'd love to be able to purchase LOR online, but it's just not available. I have the copies in paperback, but now that I've been accostomed to the convienence, I darn shure don't want to add to the laptop bag of stuff if I don't have to.

Thanks for all the help...it's greatly appreciated.

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