You know: Tolkien probably did something like that for a reason: to GET a reaction like that. I mean, the best thing a book can do is inspire conversation, and that's what his books do. I mean, it's not all about "symbols" and "inner meaning", but...it inspires message boards like these to be formed! Tolkien probably meant nothing, he just created the world like any world would be: with prejudice and love and hatred and good and evil and war...
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"I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can be together all the time." - Hobbes of Calvin and Hobbes
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