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[david_wendelken]

Working on the text layout for the last file. Then I have to merge in the graphics files again. Hopefully will be caught up today.

 

[david_wendelken]

Text is laid out and I'm halfway thru the graphics.

 

[WatcherWraith]

Almost there! :]

 

[Ent]

Indeed. Good to hear.

 

[Maedhros_Nelyafinwë]

Hey all, hope your projects are going well! I'm beginning to recover from the tax season, so hopefully I'll be a bit more active in here soon.

I'm curious, since I wasn't able to keep up with this thread for the past two months, was there a particular reason for the thread title being changed?

 

[david_wendelken]

Layout redone, images added, printing now to verify I got the layout and pagination right. Still have 2 digital illustrations and a page to write, but their place-holders are already there. I'm sure there will be a few darnits to be found.

Had to go to the doctor for a routine follow-up visit today, got some editing done on the prequel's book while I waited in the lobby.

 

[Ent]

I'm curious, since I wasn't able to keep up with this thread for the past two months, was there a particular reason for the thread title being changed?

Our illustrious Head Admin was doing some 'historical review', finding threads very similar to each other, and doing some combining.

In addition, there was a desire to shorten some of the existing threads' title lengths due to some kind of issue existent in the ethereal darkness of electronic bits and bytes I don't quite grasp.

In any event, this particular thread saw some HA action... thus, the title change.

 

[david_wendelken]

Layout and B&W digital illustrations done. Now I'm fighting my way thru how to print folios using the Adobe products and my printer. (I knew how to do this with MS Word.) Hopefully I'll figure that out tonight.

I thought my bookbinding class started Sunday, but it starts a week from Sunday. So I have a bit more time to figure it out, refine a few illustrations, and maybe even colorize them.

 

[david_wendelken]

Took me hours of experimentation, a software upgrade to Adobe Acrobat Pro, some colourful language, and googling to find out the magic combinations of Acrobat and Printer settings to get it printing properly.

First folio of 32 pages is printing now. A folio is a group of sheets of paper that get folded in half and sewn into the book binding. I have to print it one folio at a time.

 

[WatcherWraith]

Took me hours of experimentation, a software upgrade to Adobe Acrobat Pro, some colourful language, and googling to find out the magic combinations of Acrobat and Printer settings to get it printing properly.

First folio of 32 pages is printing now. A folio is a group of sheets of paper that get folded in half and sewn into the book binding. I have to print it one folio at a time.

It's happening!! I'm glad things are progressing!

 

[Ent]

Sorry all.. I changed the title a little again. Even shorter.

 

[Ent]

Well, this morning I got back to working on my book again finally.
What that means is, I'm revising Chapter 1 one more time, as I read through it to prep for entry into Chapter 2 again.
My theory is the 'attraction' or 'draw' of the chapter is being improved and clarified. Theories are good.
Anyway, I'll flow into Chapter 2 shortly.

(Interruptions will no doubt occur, as I continue to work out my Character Comparison and Contrast Between Maeglin and Snape, With Associated Considerations Of Why Snape Seems To Get A Pass On His Ill Deeds While Maeglin (and some others) Don't. No small matter.)

Mostly the latter attracts me because it's been awhile since I've done a real character study.

This will be good prep for my 3rd book to come... "Tolkien's Characters: What They Reveal For Us" (or similar title.)

I may accelerate or shorten the process on Maeglin and Snape however, so I can get on with the other work(s).

If nothing else, if I put something out there not quite complete or accurate, it will give some folks something to take aim and fire away at. (Some may do that even if I do put an "Ent complete' work out there. it's still a matter of opinion at the end of the day... and of course, it could result in some more nice stuff for my 2nd book: "Mankind, Life, and the Religion of Opinion.)

 

[WatcherWraith]

Ooooooooo Snape...hm. I could say lots about his character and why I believe him to be a better person than Maeglin...The analysis intrigues me very much.

 

[Tyelkormo the Fair]

Ooooooooo Snape...hm. I could say lots about his character and why I believe him to be a better person than Maeglin...The analysis intrigues me very much.

Would love to hear your thoughts in the original thread!

Thread 'Maeglin vs Snape' https://thetolkien.forum/threads/maeglin-vs-snape.32008/

 

[Ent]

Indeed. Better than Maeglin, certainly. Worthy of redemption? Why does he seem to 'get a pass' for all his badness, where other characters don't ? (i.e. perhaps, what makes him an 'endearing' character anyway, and what does 'endeared' look like in such a case?) Those too, are things to be addressed.)

Addition: Not to mention the issue of 'what do we mean by redeemed.' (which opens up a whole can of worms....one I must deal with to a certain degree in my current book.)

 

[WatcherWraith]

Would love to hear your thoughts in the original thread!

Thread 'Maeglin vs Snape' https://thetolkien.forum/threads/maeglin-vs-snape.32008/

I am in the middle of reading the thread now :]
I'll have to get to replying to it after work, though.

 

[Ent]

Bilbo: I am a-quiver with anticipation. (in Bakshi's version of The Hobbit)

 

[Tyelkormo the Fair]

I am in the middle of reading the thread now :]
I'll have to get to replying to it after work, though.

Of course!

 

[david_wendelken]

Indeed. Better than Maeglin, certainly. Worthy of redemption? Why does he seem to 'get a pass' for all his badness, where other characters don't ? (i.e. perhaps, what makes him an 'endearing' character anyway, and what does 'endeared' look like in such a case?) Those too, are things to be addressed.)

Addition: Not to mention the issue of 'what do we mean by redeemed.' (which opens up a whole can of worms....one I must deal with to a certain degree in my current book.)

Maybe because the tales we know came from the Houses of Fingolfin and/or Finarfin, and not Feanor... There is remarkably little detail about what Finrod's sons did in the Silmarillion.

 

[Ent]

Yes, likely part of it. I'll need to do a bunch of reading and research on the Maeglin side to do the specific comparison.
The other piece of the OP's question is the "genz" attitude in general toward 'bad guys' and genz's general antipathy toward them...but yet wyy not Snape.

this seems to me a little more ambiguous - i.e. a matter of opinion - thus what is it about Snape that SEEMS to endear him to the genz (and other?!) folks, more than other more or less 'rotten apples' do??

(Or is that even a correct perspective? does genz (and others) really give Snape more of a break than others of his ilk? This is much harder to answer for me, and I may need to take a pass on it, and speak only for those of the Ent's generation or so. Either that, or I'm in for a very long search of the internet in all kinds of seemly and unseemly places, to try to expand my own experiences with other generations, regarding Snape. A place I don't think I can take time to go, given my other work at hand.)