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Originally Posted by Fordim Hedgethistle
Whatever Tolkien may have intended or wanted the fact is that people are writing new stories, and there's nothing that's going to stop them from doing so. And no matter how the Professor would have reacted to these tales there are lots of people reading and enjoying these new stories.
The horse, as they say, has already left that particular barn...
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The fact that stories are being written and enjoyed doesn't answer the question of what status is to be accorded to these stories or how they should be read in relation to Tolkien's own Middle Earth writings. I think his intention is relevant to determing that question.
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He looked down at her in the twilight and it seemed to him that the lines of grief and cruel hardship were smoothed away. "She was not conquered," he said
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