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Originally Posted by davem
One can put it down to 'the exigencies of JRR's and Christopher's limited time', (or 'chance - if chance you call it') but what I'm arguing is that the work as we have it is a perfect post-Christian/post-religious novel, & therefore a much more contemporary work than LotR.
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I hope not, because contemporaneity has as its corollary that this work will some day become passé; which I highly doubt.
It is, however, perfectly honorable to say that one
likes one work better than another by the same author because it jibes with one's beliefs.