‘Canonicity’: the Book or the Reader?

[HerenIstarion]

davem for president! Or, another 'well said' for you (pity I can't rate it, as 20 persons haven't passed me yet)

But I sense your own opinion changed, davem, and I believe to the more right direction (me still holding there are more/less right interpretations out there). To quote HP's Gryffindor students:

'davem is our King (Queen?),
davem is our King,
He (she?) didn't let the Falsehood in,
davem is our King

Excuse this disgraceful bit of foolery on my part, but you came close to what I believe to be true but am not able to express as punctually as you do, probably due to pitiable lack of language-mastery

I can't help feeling that you are running scared of a belief - that if you were to accept that 'Truth' is 'real' then you would have to put down your Tolkien, pick up a Bible & head off to Church.

Now I can't help feeling that was a bit unfair, though