Private Eye recordings rights to all the Private Eye recordings produced from 1962-1980 and arranged for the commercial release of the first ten flexi-discs on a 12" vinyl album to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Private Eye magazine in October 1981. The album - titled " Private Eye Presents Golden Satiricals [The Top Ten Flexi-Discs!]" was released on Lewis' Springtime Records label, distributed by Island Records. The release included a facsimile of the first-ever issue of Private Eye. In 1998, the flexi-discs album was reissued by Springtime Records as a double audio-cassette set distributed by MCI (Music Collection International) - with the
The Eye of the World the Dragon Reborn, but her opinion and all other details of the final battle are kept from all the male members of the group except Lan. Robert Jordan has stated that he consciously intended the early chapters of "The Eye of the World" to evoke the Shire of Middle-Earth in J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings". Despite their similarities, these two works also differ in themes. For instance, both Jordan and Tolkien created narratives that explored power. However, the Eye of the World discussed how it can be deployed whereas The Lord of the Rings was more