‘Canonicity’: the Book or the Reader? - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Bêthberry · 07-27-2004, 08:18 AM

You keep using "Tolkien's moral/ethical position" whereas I used "espouses in the book", davem. And I also said determining this is an interpretive act. As I have earlier stated on this thread, I think LotR is a book which invites readers to take an active role in reading and interpreting, but does not proscribe or prescribe what the reader must determine.

Since I have been down this road before, I politely withdraw from repeating myself ere I work a rut into the thread.

07-27-2004, 08:18 AM	#26
Bêthberry Cryptic Aura Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 6,003	You keep using "Tolkien's moral/ethical position" whereas I used "espouses in the book", davem. And I also said determining this is an interpretive act. As I have earlier stated on this thread, I think LotR is a book which invites readers to take an active role in reading and interpreting, but does not proscribe or prescribe what the reader must determine. Since I have been down this road before, I politely withdraw from repeating myself ere I work a rut into the thread. __________________ I’ll sing his roots off. I’ll sing a wind up and blow leaf and branch away.