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Forum: The Books
12-01-2016, 10:28 AM
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William Cloud Hicklin
Hmmmmm- well, it's always possible that Tolkien...
Hmmmmm- well, it's always possible that Tolkien was, characteristically, vacillating! ------------------------ Actually, I think I'm coming around to the "uncritical translation of old legends"... |
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Forum: The Books
11-25-2016, 11:57 AM
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Replies: 24
Views: 14,677
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William Cloud Hicklin
The problem with trying to merge the "Numenorean"...
The problem with trying to merge the "Numenorean" and "Bilbo" theories is simply this: if we want to postulate Bilbo as the vector for garbled Mannish traditions, it's very difficult to imagine that... |
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Forum: The Books
11-18-2016, 04:03 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 14,677
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William Cloud Hicklin
Well, yes, IF one assumes that Tolkien was...
Well, yes, IF one assumes that Tolkien was interested in synthesizing two (or three) alternate theories, rather than just picking one and chucking the rest. I find it interesting that well after... |
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Forum: The Books
11-18-2016, 12:11 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 14,677
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William Cloud Hicklin
I don't know if it was quite the case that...
I don't know if it was quite the case that Tolkien had overtly rejected the ideas he was considering in the Myths Transformed texts, so much as he was ambivalent. He had already, in the late 40s,... |
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Forum: The Books
11-16-2016, 01:04 PM
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Replies: 24
Views: 14,677
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William Cloud Hicklin
I suppose that if we had to come up with a...
I suppose that if we had to come up with a fan-ficcy ret-con, we could run with the idea of "Arnor library preserved in Rivendell" and go further by positing that the Elves don't write "history" the... |
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Forum: The Books
11-16-2016, 08:33 AM
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Replies: 24
Views: 14,677
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William Cloud Hicklin
Transmission theory: what the heck was Tolkien thinking?
The letter mentioned in a recent discussion led me to realize something very odd. In it, Tolkien (or his amanuensis) mentioned that the Silmarillion would lay out the history of the earlier Ages "as... |
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