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Shade of Carn Dûm
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Re: Frodo or the Ring?
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Quote:<hr> Tolkien liked to write as if he were a character in ME<hr></blockquote>
Except in personal essays where he examines his own construction.
JRRT wrote as the 'Translator' who had discovered the RED BOOK. This is self-evident and expressly stated in Hobbit and LOTR, (especially so in the Prologue and Appendices) as well as the Introduction to AOTB, and thus is essentially a character who has stepped into his own creation.
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