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I really doubt that it will be remembered at all in 5003, or if it is, it will be as well known as Caedmon's poem.
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Good, idea, Iarwain, comparing Professor Tolkien to Caedmon. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] I think that whatever the state of humanity may be in 3000 years, Tolkien's work will be obscure, although there is a chance that it could be remembered and studied as an epic just as the Odyssey and the Iliad are today.
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The ideal (for the book itself) will be that it will be considered as mythology
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I have also considered how wonderful it would be for a future race or civilization, be it humanity in the future or an alien civilization, to translate Tolkien's books and take them for a complex mythology or even some sort of skewed history of the world.
[ September 10, 2003: Message edited by: Lord of Angmar ]