Feb 18 2010 1:51pm  LotR re-read: Boskone panel on worldbuilding
anomalies with Tom Shippey  Hi, everyone. I was going to put the
discussion of the aforementioned Boskone panel at the start of
the next chapter post, but as I wrote I remembered more and
more, until the panel report ended up being about as long as a
normal post all by itself. So as not to slight “The Passing of
the Grey Company” (which is far too awesome to get second
billing), I’ve broken this out into its own post.  Thus, behind
the jump, some incomplete but nevertheless fairly long notes on
the panel that Mary Kay Kare, Mark L. Olson, Tom Shippey (!!),
and I were on at Boskone called “The Problem of Glorfindel—and
Other Issues in Tolkien.”  As I said above, what follows is
going to be incomplete and mostly keyed off of things I said,
because that’s easiest for me to remember and I don’t have any
contemporaneous notes. I know at least one other person who
sometimes reads these posts was in the audience, and I
absolutely encourage him and anyo