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| View Poll Results: The 'real meaning' of the Lord of the Rings is to be found in: | |||
| The Author's intent |
   
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2 | 7.14% |
| The Reader's individual opinion |
  
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6 | 21.43% |
| Mainstream Reader consensus |
  
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0 | 0% |
| The BarrowDowns Book Forum consensus |
  
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2 | 7.14% |
| A Glimpse of Divine Truth |
  
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1 | 3.57% |
| The Reader's collaboration with both the Author's intent and the opinions of others |
  
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4 | 14.29% |
| Divine Truth glimpsed by the individual Reader guided by the Author's intent |
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3 | 10.71% |
| It does not have to have a 'meaning' at all, the books are entertaining, and that's sufficient |
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5 | 17.86% |
| All of the above may be true up to an extent |
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5 | 17.86% |
| Current poll does not cover all possible options at all, we need another, refined one [if you choose this answer, please list other possible options in the thread. Thank you] |
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0 | 0% |
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08-25-2005, 07:24 AM
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Corpus Cacophonous
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: A green and pleasant land
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I don't really like the word "opinion", since it implies too much in the way of conscious control on the part of the reader but, for me, such "meaning" as there is can only exist within the mind of each individual reader. So that's the option that I have plumped for. An uninterpreted text is meaningless.
The reader's interpretation is, of course, influenced by authorial intent, the views of others and a multitude of other factors. But it is not a collaboration.
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