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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, 09:53 AM
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Auspicious Wraith
Join Date: May 2002
Location: The Netherlands
Posts: 4,859
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An uninterpreted text is meaningless? Scandalous, my dear Saucepan!
If no-one ever saw a particular flower before it wilted and died, it would have been just as beautiful as it would have been if someone had seen it. The viewer has nothing to do with the beauty of the flower. Now, you may argue that such a flower is of less meaning but surely not that it is of no meaning.
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