Folks, you know you do sound ever complaining
. Some people annoy you as they are amateurs, the rest are hated for being experts. What are you after, than? The standard, the image of ideal Tolkien fan I crave for! Probably that is congruent with the standard of average citizen? Middle aged, well-of, happily married and well employed, parent of two blondish blue-eyed infants and, of course, psychologically balanced?
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Don't you just hate those people who back up their assertions with quotes from Tolkien's Letters and thereby kill a thread?
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Provided that letters confirm the assertion, can't see what goes wrong there
Suppose the thread deals with Numenor, and some say its image must have been based on Samurai Japan, and some nay, it was Ancient Rome Tolkien had in mind, and than yours truly turns up, and gives an assertion as of its image being based on Ancient Egypt, and backs himself up with the following:
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Letter 211 To Rhona Beare
The Númenóreans of Gondor were proud, peculiar, and archaic, and I think are best pictured in (say) Egyptian terms. In many ways they resembled 'Egyptians' – the love of, and power to construct, the gigantic and massive. And in their great interest in ancestry and in tombs. (But not of course in 'theology' : in which respect they were Hebraic and even more puritan – but this would take long to set out: to explain indeed why there is practically no oven 'religion', or rather religious acts or places or ceremonies among the 'good' or anti-Sauron peoples in The Lord of the Rings.)
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Thread is, naturally, dead, for there is nothing more to speculate about, but, well, is the end of discussion mere discussion, or possible discovery of some new information/truth?
cheers
