#appendix e

when I first read that tolkien says he transcribed eldarin into our letters, while making sure they don't look "uncouth", I was like what does that even mean? but now I understand. through something he kept in:

"What was Appendix E? Griswold had prevailed upon the Department of Defense to use one of its first computers to scour federal laws and regulations to find all rules “containing differentiations based upon sex-related criteria.” There were hundreds of them, and it would not have been possible for a mere law professor, in those days before simple computer databases, to track them down. The Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal, but Appendix E gave Ginsburg a road map for the next decade of her life—she wanted to undo as many of that long list of laws as possible. She later said Appendix E was a “treasure trove.”