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The difference of the frame stories between LotR and The Notion Club Papers might steem a good deal from the conntent of the work they frame.
In the The Notion Club Papers Tolkien set out to write a story about time travel. And I beleive that the frame story was written with that in mind. And as the frame story is in existance while the The Notion Club Papers are not completed, they frame story was written relativly early.
In contarst the translator conceid of LotR was a late addition, after at least the arc of the main story was completed. And the story it frames is a fairy tale grown out of th hand of its outer and of its originally aimd readers into a legend.
So the frame story is a kind of test: If your are not totaly taken a back by it, you may more probabaly enjoy what follows.
Respectfully
Findegil
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