I would be extremely hesitant because JRRT himself thought it was 'merely a thriller, and if I recall correctly rejected it both while working on it, and then again after looking it over years later. He refers rather disparagingly to it in the Letters also, if I am not mistaken.
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The dwindling Men of the West would often sit up late into the night exchanging lore & wisdom such as they still possessed that they should not fall back into the mean estate of those who never knew or indeed rebelled against the Light.
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