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Originally Posted by Aiwendil
We probably shouldn't open this particular Pandora's box here - but of course, this comment begs the question: what is 'canonical'?
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Well I am not opening anything, but the point was rather that some people consider HoME completely uncanonical, some people don't, but all consider LotR canonical. And when LotR and HoME conflict, people of course take LotR: and LotR says what I just quoted.
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05-06-2009, 01:14 PM
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