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Old 06-21-2006, 01:36 AM   #34
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Originally Posted by littlemanpoet
but let some great new cataclysmic (or not so) event shake the current paradigm to its roots, and see what there is then to say about the man.
Oh, I don't deny that readers will always find Tolkien's works to be 'applicable', but that's not the same as us finding something new to say about the works themselves, or about Tolkien himself, in terms of origins, sources, what he was really doing (or attempting to do).

BTW, you seem to have a very 'apocalyptic' vision of the future there, LMP.
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