Sauron vs. Your Mama - A Discussion of Power in Middle-earth

[davem]

Originally Posted by obloquy

All of my points/arguments in this thread relate to what I understand to be Tolkien's latest ideas on the subject. He was pretty careful to build around LotR rather than in contradiction with it, and I'm sure he considered the later concepts compatible with those already in print. That said, he didn't leave us anything like my original post above. It may not be exactly how he imagined it, but he didn't tell us exactly how he imagined it. I have merely tried to draw a more complete picture.

Oh, I can see a lot of value in your speculations - I don't disagree with it in its essentials. I was just posing questions that occurred to me.