Talk:Red Book of Westmarch

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Why is part of the title of the book struck out? Is there a reason for this?  –Benjamin  (talk)  01:54, 19 February 2006 (UTC)

See the last chapter of the Lord of the Rings. The article is reproducing the title page of the Red Book as described there... including various titles stricken out. --CBDunkerson 13:00, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
This really ought to be a part of the article. It confused me as well (and I've read them several times...) --D3matt 03:40, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
These concerns seem to have since been rectified. --Thisisbossi 07:49, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] history of Red Book

I've often wondered how we were supposed to imagine Tolkien got access to the Red Book. If this is not mentioned anywhere, I'd suggest adding a sentence immediately after Tolkien's claim that he translated the book from Westron, something like "Nowhere in his writings does his fictional persona say how he learned Westron or how the Red Book came into his hands." —JerryFriedman (Talk) 05:06, 1 December 2007 (UTC)