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Originally Posted by davem
I'm not discounting the importance of TH. I'm just saying it belongs outside the Legendarium.
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And I am suggesting that your reasons for saying it belongs outside the Legendarium are based on a faulty assumption that only linear, logically consistent lines are meaningful in literary creation. TH was the start of something. That something might have ended up somewhat different from its genesis, but to say that TH does not belong with or 'inside' the Legendarium is to force a particular form of relationship on the works, one which denies or overlooks or denigrates the illogic nature of literary creation. It also assumes that you can fully and completely identify "a Legendarium", which is also false. I have suggested this before and
Mr. Underhill has also pointed it out. "The Legendarium" existed only as a concept in Tolkien's mind. He never wrote a definitive one. And it is recreated only in the reader's mind.
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Originally Posted by davem
What belongs in the Sil are those writings which conform to it, in mood, tone & consistency.
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It does not exist as an objective standard, nor as a logically consistent theorem.