LOL! This again. Nor should we forget the interpretation that these ideas do not
necessarily agree -- and need not necessarily agree, like other ideas and details also found in an author's
draft texts. And speaking of forgetting, nor should we forget that with respect to late texts, Tolkien himself even noted that his memory was not retentive; noting that 'late texts', while seemingly written in the same
general time frame, could still be written many months apart, or even years apart.
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Anyway I agree that sentence may have more than one interpretation but why should we care about the one it's conflicted if both are of late dates and the other can fit perfectly??
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You don't have to care. No one has to care. But if the sentences in question do have more than one interpretation, as you agree to here... well then there you have it, you agree!
If anyone wants to care only about
the interpretation that everything Tolkien wrote about this matter (everything that can be characterized as a 'late text' anyway) fits because it can be argued that it fits...
... then yes people are free to care only about that specific interpretation
