I'm a little perplexed by the JRRT interview and his quote from Bouvoir. Carl Maria von Weber, a contemporary of Beethoven, died in 1826. More likely is the serialist composer Anton Webern, who died in 1945 (not quite 1939)- but I can't imagine a Shoenberg disciple being one of JRRT's favorites.
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The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.
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