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Old 11-21-2006, 01:20 PM   #10
Estelyn Telcontar
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In my opinion, Tolkien himself wanted the enigmas to stay enigmatic - even to and for himself! Do you think he had all of the background figured out and just chose to keep that information from his readers on purpose? Boro has a point with JRRT's inability to resolve some of the mysteries due to health problems later in life, but I propose that he did not want to cut the ball open so that it would not lose its bounce for him. Or, to speak with Gandalf:
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...he that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
I suggest that Tolkien wanted to keep at least a bit of Faery's mystery for himself.
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