Makes me think of Tolkien's comments:
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I have long ceased to invent. I wait till I know what really happened. Or till it writes itself. (Letter 180)
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But as it is - though it seems to have grown out of hand, so that parts seem to me rather revealed through me than by me - its purpose is still largely literary (&, if you don't boggle at the term, didactic). (Letter 153)
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& his comment on a visitor who said:'Of course you don't suppose, do you, that you wrote all that book yourself?'. Tolkien replied:
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'No, I don't suppose so any longer.' I have never since been able to suppose so.(Letter 328)
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Maybe the real question should be 'Did Tolkien have free will'?
