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| The author's published works, during his lifetime |
   
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3 | 15.00% |
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5 | 25.00% |
| ALL of the author's works, notes, letters, and ideas, published or not, conflicting or not |
  
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9 | 45.00% |
| What the reading community says is Canon |
  
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| What the BarrowDowns community says is Canon |
  
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1 | 5.00% |
| What the critics say is Canon |
  
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0 | 0% |
| Canon is whatever I, the reader, want it to be |
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1 | 5.00% |
| Something completely (or slightly) different [if you choose this last option, please explain yourself in the thread. Thank you] |
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1 | 5.00% |
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08-19-2005, 10:17 AM
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Ghost Prince of Cardolan
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: WA
Posts: 941
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The Hobbit fixes its own discrepancies by recognizing Bilbo as the author rather than Tolkien. He was writing an adventure story, not annals of Middle-earth. I asserted that it is not strictly canonical mythology-wise because Bilbo did not necessarily have this fidelity to fact in mind when writing it. The events presented in the book are still "true" events in the course of the Third Age, but the details, in my opinion, should be considered "flexible."
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