Tolkien's Secret Hidden Code

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Originally Posted by Mithalwen

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply. I was aware of every piece of criticism rather that despite having read a lot of criticism, I couldn't recall an instance of an attack of that nature.

I am totally in agreement with your post. My intent was to indicate the feelings that arose when I read it. Any statement by anyone that they don’t think that they have read anything that makes a certain accusation tends to set me searching, when I have time, for something that makes that accusation, even when I disagree with the accusation. I have found such an accusation now. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Christopher_Tolkien . The pertinent remark is under 8 Sources needed and reads:

Are there any verifiable and reliable sources that demonstrate that [Christopher] Tolkien is in fact editing his father's notes rather than writing stories himself? There's a lot of uncited assumptions in that regard.--otherlleft 13:59, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

A good question, but it applies just as much to any writer, and also to those who have written material validating that writer, and to those who are validating them, and so on without end. Remember Åke Ohlmarks, Tolkien’s Swedish translator who believed, at the end of his life, that C. S. Lewis wrote most of The Lord of the Rings, not Tolkien. See http://white-eagle.tumblr.com/post/5...he-black-magic and https://groups.google.com/forum/#!to...en/-M4MzZWNXHM for two sources. In the end all one can do is use one’s own intelligence and knowledge to evaluate writers.