Excellent offering as always Squatting One.
but I would, especially for the sake of the aforementioned 'critique', alter
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this theme was abandoned in later writings.
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to something indicating that the original English 'history' theme was in a sense transformed into the Hobbits and the Shire 'representing' England and that the idea still remained in the end of the entire Legendarium that eveolved out of Lost Tales i.e. The Hobbit. LotR and the chaos of wonder that was compressed into 'the Silmarillion' still was seen as a faux pre-history of Northern/Western Europe.
also Anorien if you dig up Aiwendil's PM on the TftE forum he has written a precis of Aelfwine/Eriol that may be of some use to you.
Big project for a short amount of time.
I wish you far more success on your paper than I had on a similar accasion in my last year of HS.
I was trying to write my final report in English on the relationship between Zen and the Elves. I ended up wandering through some as yet unexplored woodlands with my best friend [posting here occasionaly as] Thorondil instead. Funny,I just realized I am in a way I am still working on it [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] though I would replace the Zen as pect with the Saints.