Louis Epstein said, and said well: NO MAN (OR WOMAN) COMETH TO MIDDLE-EARTH SAVE THROUGH THE *BOOKS!!* Id est veritas, fraterus meus. And I would go one step further. It is time we true fans destroyed the travesty that is the published Silmarillion. How dare anyone attempt to reduce the glorious uncertainty of cricket^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Middle-Earth by attempting to impose on it an