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anghraineSometimes I’m torn, because I really don’t feel that unfinished side-projects should be required reading for a published and widespread text, but …
Well, my favourite Tolkien work is LOTR. But my understanding of LOTR has a lot of influence from Tolkien’s later work, and I feel that it’s not quite fair to talk about what he was doing while ignoring large of swaths of what he did.
And yet, people shouldn’t need to read ancillary material to come away with a valid reading of a text.
Then again …
(This touches a lot of discussions for me, but especially takes on Isildur that ignore "Gladden Fields.")
Well, my favourite Tolkien work is LOTR. But my understanding of LOTR has a lot of influence from Tolkien’s later work, and I feel that it’s not quite fair to talk about what he was doing while ignoring large of swaths of what he did.
And yet, people shouldn’t need to read ancillary material to come away with a valid reading of a text.
Then again …
(This touches a lot of discussions for me, but especially takes on Isildur that ignore "Gladden Fields.")