  ::::: It’s hard to argue with your sense of proportion (Cp. “And then Professor Tolkien again interrupted his important work on Beowulf for another silly children’s book.” -), but personally, I did prefer the strict chronological arrangement—that’s what motivated me to start my contributions, since none of the other sources had any kind of chronological discipline.  (That’s one of my main gripes against Saunders’ biography; he drops the thread of the chronology for a tangent he finds interesting, and never recovers.)  I do think it’s worthwhile, when reading about Doc’s writing, to know what was going on in his life at the time. ::::: — 