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***Sharkû*** · 09-04-2003, 07:05 AM

My point about the Marring, in the post already given in meaningful parenthesis, only becomes truly valid when you make the simple mental realization that Tom, if he were Eä, would not simply be marred to the degree other inhabitants are, but incorporate all Marring and the Marrer itself. I cannot see that.

I, perhaps too obliquely, implied the possibility of Tom being outside of the whole matter when I said " if he was to be, represent, or, as a matter of fact, even be within Eä" and hinted on the old Tolkien quote of the Oxford countryside, which is very clearly not a work of his fiction and thusly not of Eä.

09-04-2003, 07:05 AM	#18
*Sharkû* Hungry Ghoul Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 1,719	My point about the Marring, in the post already given in meaningful parenthesis, only becomes truly valid when you make the simple mental realization that Tom, if he were Eä, would not simply be marred to the degree other inhabitants are, but incorporate all Marring and the Marrer itself. I cannot see that. I, perhaps too obliquely, implied the possibility of Tom being outside of the whole matter when I said " if he was to be, represent, or, as a matter of fact, even be within Eä" and hinted on the old Tolkien quote of the Oxford countryside, which is very clearly not a work of his fiction and thusly not of Eä.