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My guess is that she established her theory before HoMe was published and has not taken any of the new texts into account in her reading of this passage (in the revised edition). I could be wrong, though, as I have not followed her work and that of others in Tolkien Studies.
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That's what I might have wondered too Bethberry, but her essay was published only recently in Tolkien Studies VI and considers
HME, text from PE 17, and even the new material from JRRT touching upon fate and free will -- published in the same volume by Carl Hostetter.
Anyway, the latest Tolkien Studies has a 'reaction' of sorts to Flieger's essay:
'Strange and Free' On Some Aspects of the Nature of Elves and Men Thomas Fornet-Ponse (Tolkien Studies VII).
I just finished reading this essay, and now must disagree with V. Flieger just a bit more than before
