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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Tolkein
  • Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:45:19 -0500


each time I see something new.....a new
analogy, a new symbolism, a new meaning in one of the poems, etc.

Good fiction evokes unique vision by each reader. Tolkien intended far less than readers found: '"In his forword to the work Tolkien expressed his dislike of allegory: "As for any inner meaning or 'message', it has in the intention of the author none. It is neither allegorical nor topical...'"

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/tolkien.htm








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