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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/bluepal.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Which books are canon?
Welcome newly deceased!
You must be
newly deceased; your posts are still so
lively. I think that Mithadan is right. That the family and the publishers are little likely to act upon any suggestions coming out of the fan universe, valid and organized or otherwise. (c.f. my post under the topic "Middle Earth"
Nevertheless I think that that makes Lindil's idea for a council to hammer out canon all the more gratifying. There has been a good deal of discussion on this thread about canon, but it has basically ignored the prototypical example of canon-formation, the councils of the early church which decided which books would be gospel and which would be apocrypha. I conclude that the Professor was a Catholic of a most conciliar stripe and I don't doubt that he would smile upon such an undertaking.
fyi, on this board, there is an established usage to the effect that only Hobbit, LotR and Sil. are canon. The Wraith, however, has also said that this is open to reform if a new consensus emerged. Let's just keep the schisms and kin-slaying friendly. <img src=laugh.gif ALT=":lol">
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