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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/bloody.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: galadriel
Firstly, let's have peace between us. You need hardly appeal to me for the right to dissent. We disagree and that's fine.
I don't think that anybody defers to my authority in this or aught else, nor do I intend to be the arbiter of all things Tolkien. I gave my opinion on the merits of extra-literary materials; you gave yours. If you prefer to think my literary analyses shallow, you are welcome to. Nor would you be the first to have said so.
I thought that your 'lothlorienizing' riposte was witty but I retain the privilege of thinking that my point was different than that.
I do, however, think that lots of members feel as you do and I hope that you will continue to draw upon whatsoever you wish in your posts.
I'm simply more interested in LotR than in JRRT's other production because I think that it has the greatest literary merit. For that reason, I prefer to deal with it mostly on its own terms. In this regard, I may differ from the Professor but I am content to.
Thank you for your kind offer of UT, but I think that I am unlikely to read it any time soon and so I believe that it would be better kept or given to another. My term begins soon and my class responsibilities do not permit me much leisure for pleasure reading.
g.
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