Well obviously for the author, he's the one that wrote it in the first place. But I'm not going to argue with you over whether fiction is 'what is' or 'what if', whatever that's supposed to mean anyway.
Imagination? I would personally rate this discussion as one of the least imaginative ones I have seen. There is much more you can do with 'conjecture' than this, although I haven't got a problem at all with anyone wondering whether or not the Ring would have been destroyed if Gandalf hadn't been killed. Your statement merely seems strange.
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