Yeh I guess there are more differences than similarities, but the similarities seemed worth mentioning. It's perhaps pointless but interesting nonetheless to wonder what other directions Tolkien could have went in after he resumed writing LOTR. I thought I read somewhere he stopped at the gates of Moria for a year, and had no idea where the story was going, not even who Strider was. When did he decide? When he resumed writing, how much of the complete story as we know it was in his head? How much did he make up as he went along after that?
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