This will feature internationally respected Tolkien experts such as Tom Shippey, Colin Duriez, John Garth, Corey Olsen, Alex Lewis, Colin Manlove and Verlyn Flieger.
"By the time we closed the transaction on June 11 we had the brunt of the work all done, " says John Rose, who quit Digital in 1992 after a dispute with then-president Kenneth Olsen and now heads Compaq's Enterprise Computing Group.