Though I've commented in the various canonicity threads, don't think that I've actually ever voted, and so will have to leave this poll unvoted too - for some consistancy in my life
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Meaning or meaning, presumably meaning
implied or explicit significance or
worthwhile or important quality, the answer is going to involve the reader/observer somewhere. What exactly is the significance of Tolkien's works? What makes them rise above the noise?
Even when I can get my brain to stay with one point of view for a moment and to agree on a meaning, this still is only temporary as it encompasses what I'm feeling/thinking/experiencing at that minute in time. In brief, it's all relative.