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**lindil** · 08-09-2000, 09:13 PM

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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/nenya.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: no weapons at all, please

I can understand that someone would want to draw a line in the sand around something like the LotR.and say 'this is a whole'. I happen to favor -and take great delight in seeing what else JRRT had to say about the same subjects and inparticular I love the obscure corners of the doings of the Eldar in the 2nd and early third age .So to me to talk about Galadriel and ignore writings by JRRT specificaly about her[one of which was probably the final thingJRRT wrote re: M.E. is simply not what I would do.
maybe calling it 'the bigger picture ' is a bit much as would be 'the full[er] story' in my mind -that is what it is.
So I could try and nuance my future posts w/
Warning: contains idea's drawn from posthumous
publications .
but maybe that would be a fun thread of it's own-
'do Unfinished /History provide an extra or more fragments of an incomplete whole?
It just occured to me that JRRT wanted rather desperately, to have the Silm/ LotR published as 1 work because he saw them as one.

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08-09-2000, 09:13 PM	#15
lindil Seeker of the Straight Path Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: a hidden fastness in Big Valley nor cal Posts: 1,680	<font face="Verdana"><table><TR><TD><FONT SIZE="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Haunting Spirit Posts: 0</TD><TD></TD></TR></TABLE> <img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/nenya.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: no weapons at all, please I can understand that someone would want to draw a line in the sand around something like the LotR.and say 'this is a whole'. I happen to favor -and take great delight in seeing what else JRRT had to say about the same subjects and inparticular I love the obscure corners of the doings of the Eldar in the 2nd and early third age .So to me to talk about Galadriel and ignore writings by JRRT specificaly about her[one of which was probably the final thingJRRT wrote re: M.E. is simply not what I would do. maybe calling it 'the bigger picture ' is a bit much as would be 'the full[er] story' in my mind -that is what it is. So I could try and nuance my future posts w/ Warning: contains idea's drawn from posthumous publications . but maybe that would be a fun thread of it's own- 'do Unfinished /History provide an extra or more fragments of an incomplete whole? It just occured to me that JRRT wanted rather desperately, to have the Silm/ LotR published as 1 work because he saw them as one. </p> __________________ The dwindling Men of the West would often sit up late into the night exchanging lore & wisdom such as they still possessed that they should not fall back into the mean estate of those who never knew or indeed rebelled against the Light.