...put a lid on the monolithic assumption that 'first publication' [of The Hobbit] means the same thing as 'first conceived' as a Ring [in the absolutist sense, as NOT BEFORE December of 1937]...
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...And I add, that the donging-on-the-head of the --assumption-- does NOT preclude the.....
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Competing one - yours - about content, not timing.