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Throughout his earlier writing, including the Silkarillion up until the Thirties, Tolkien would casually use uncapitalized 'men' to refer to a body or group of sentients, Elves and even Orcs. A reader of The Hobbit objected to it, and in revision T corrected such usages, but he missed a couple.
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The entire plot of The Lord of the Rings could be said to turn on what Sauron didn’t know, and when he didn’t know it.
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