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Originally Posted by SpM
Why must we? Are you talking about everyone who reads LotR, those who are interested in delving further than the text, or just those who are interested in having this discourse with the author?
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Ok, we must if we wish to understand what the author meant.
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But you are primarily, if not solely, relying on the text of what we have posted.
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Which is as much as I have, but I don't pretend you don't exist, & that the texts pop onto the screen of themselves - I take them as 'expressions of your minds', things that you are communicating to me. The 'texts' are the way we communicate, as much as things in themselves. 'Living shapes that move from mind to mind', & all that.