Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
George MacDonald and Tolkein were lovely, but there just isn't that much of that kind of thing when you read at the rate that she does.
Tolkien, please (You, or she, might like to visit
http://www.tolkeinsociety.org/ :-)
Tolkien is sufficiently important to our family that I may feel the need to delete this post shortly; please don't quote it! But yes, if I had mentioned The Silmarillion as something DS devoured on the way to this great event a couple of years ago (and could have devoured earlier than that, if he had happened on it), my incompetence to pronounce on typically developing reading might have been clearer; I should probably realise I'm in a hole and stop digging.

Did you/she realise that there is a lot of The History of Middle Earth, btw?

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