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Old 08-09-2003, 08:24 AM   #17
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some sort of evil of Men, I should think, rather than an actual third Dark Lord
That is precisely what it would have been, a cult of Gondorian Men who practiced 'Satanic' rituals (worshipping Morgoth). Tolkien said that the book would have been nothing more than a thriller about stopping such a cult.

I doubt most Tolkien fans would have liked it at all.
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