Although I am happy I earned a doctorate in accounting and learned the unique craft of asking an unanswered research question, designing a study and developing a manuscript that can eventually be published in an academic publication, something was still missing from my life.
"I now know more than I ever wanted to about the difficulties of editing a 20th Century manuscript, about copyright regulations, about the strange personal and academic resentments that still lurk in various quarters nearly 30 years after Tolkien's death, " Prof Drout said.