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Mithalwen · 11-23-2004, 03:00 PM

I was making a wider comment on what I have observed at that point. Only the first two sentences were intended in response to your post BB. I shall edit in a paragraph break to make that clearer. Indeed, there is much more I would know about that realtionship but wether we ever will, I don't know. However, I was trying to point out that I believe the scholar in CT would not permit, say the destruction of documents in order to protect reputation - in fact from HoME it seems that every last "back of an envelope" has been preserved. It is a difficult balance this closeness v. objectivity thing - may be not a question of wrong and right just a difference of perspective.

11-23-2004, 03:00 PM	#22
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,463	I was making a wider comment on what I have observed at that point. Only the first two sentences were intended in response to your post BB. I shall edit in a paragraph break to make that clearer. Indeed, there is much more I would know about that realtionship but wether we ever will, I don't know. However, I was trying to point out that I believe the scholar in CT would not permit, say the destruction of documents in order to protect reputation - in fact from HoME it seems that every last "back of an envelope" has been preserved. It is a difficult balance this closeness v. objectivity thing - may be not a question of wrong and right just a difference of perspective. __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace