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littlemanpoet · 01-21-2003, 11:13 AM

This may have been said already on this thread, but scanning, I don't see it so here goes:

Part of Tolkien's creative process was a historicization (I think that's a word) [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] of the world he had created. Therefore, when he turned to his poems, I can imagine him as having decided that "this one" might serve as one that Bilbo wrote, and "that one" as something Frodo could have written based on a bad dream after returning to the Shire. And so he assigned them such feigned historical linkages. All part of his world building.

01-21-2003, 11:13 AM	#22
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	This may have been said already on this thread, but scanning, I don't see it so here goes: Part of Tolkien's creative process was a historicization (I think that's a word) [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] of the world he had created. Therefore, when he turned to his poems, I can imagine him as having decided that "this one" might serve as one that Bilbo wrote, and "that one" as something Frodo could have written based on a bad dream after returning to the Shire. And so he assigned them such feigned historical linkages. All part of his world building.