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Originally Posted by Zigûr
And of course, surely logic dictates that anyone who thinks that the added material is from the Appendices (let alone The Silmarillion etc) must never have read said material, or else they'd know otherwise - so how can they derive any satisfaction from their inclusion? Because someone else told them this is what Professor Tolkien wrote?
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Well, it serves as a stock defence against anyone who says the added stuff doesn’t belong– and perhaps in their own minds just
believing it’s “authentic” gives it an added value. You know, like a collector’s item.