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Originally Posted by davem
There are two approaches to such things: where it came from & what it was built for. It seems to me that Tolkien's purpose was not to construct a puzzle to be fathomed out, but a work of Art (or if you prefer a story) principally intended to move the reader, to entertain him or her.
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Exactly! Thanks Davem. You put it much more nicely than I as I tried to make the same point.
A work of art / literature can't be analysed into pieces that would convey the exactly same meaning. Happily so.
To re-write the old phrase: a whole is more than the sum of it's parts, and a work of art is more than the ingredients even the author thought consciously of...