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<blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 4782357" data-attributes="member: 18280">Okay; let's take a closer look at the above.(1)&nbsp; D&amp;D appeared in 1974, not 1965.(2)&nbsp; The D&amp;D 1e DMG appeared in 1979, not 1965.(3)&nbsp; LotR was published continually in seperate volumes in addition to the boxed sets.&nbsp; From the same website you link to:As noted above the books proved to be popular, so Allen &amp; Unwin thought that there may be a market for a collected edition of the three volumes.&nbsp; Some readers had already chosen to construct their own by binding the three books together - in January 1956 a &quot;leading bookseller&quot; requested unbound sheets to make one for his own library. And the reason that Tolkein's publisher was an academic publisher is that Tolkein was an academic.&nbsp; Most of his published work (if not his most popular work) is academic in nature.&nbsp; Selective information leads to what might, on the surface, seem like a good argument, but it is easily punctured.RC</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Raven Crowking, post: 4782357, member: 18280"] Okay; let's take a closer look at the above. (1) D&D appeared in 1974, not 1965. (2) The D&D 1e DMG appeared in 1979, not 1965. (3) LotR was published continually in seperate volumes in addition to the boxed sets. From the same website you link to: [INDENT]As noted above the books proved to be popular, so Allen & Unwin thought that there may be a market for a collected edition of the three volumes. Some readers had already chosen to construct their own by binding the three books together - in January 1956 a "leading bookseller" requested unbound sheets to make one for his own library. [/INDENT] And the reason that Tolkein's publisher was an academic publisher is that Tolkein was an academic. Most of his published work (if not his most popular work) is academic in nature. Selective information leads to what might, on the surface, seem like a good argument, but it is easily punctured. RC [/QUOTE]

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