By the way WCH, just to note it, I edited in a response to another part of your post above, just in case you want to respond to something I said there.
I'm not sure you'll want to, and in any event we've (basically) been over similar ground before, like in your thread: "Transmission theory: what the heck was Tolkien thinking?" for example.
http://www.forum.barrowdowns.com/sho...t=transmission
Anyway, note noted!