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Originally Posted by Thenamir
This is certainly true. However, in the case of LOTR, as I noted above, this is not the case.
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Yet he carried on writing it even during periods when he had lost all hope of seeing it published. With some of his other writings on the Legendarium we know that no-one read them during Tolkien's lifetime & he had no reason to believe that anyone would read them after his death. Certainly, if he was writing with publication (& therefore with a readership in mind) he would not have taken the approach he did. He would have focussed on each individual story & brought it to completion & sent it off to Allen & Unwin.
If, as Tolkien believed, we are made in the image of a Creator, then it is in our nature to (sub)create - not for any particular purpose, or with any goal in mind, but simply because that's the way we are, its what we
do.