The medieval studies professor who discovered and edited a lost manuscript by JRR Tolkien, says dealing with Tolkien’s fans was arduous over the six years it took to prepare the manuscript. “It was unfortunate that there were some obsessive fans who “whose attention one attracts by working on anything related to Tolkien. The sheer number of people who were trying to profit from Tolkien’s work was astonishing, and the problems with copyright violation and outright theft were like nothing I had ever encountered in medieval studies.”