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| View Poll Results: The meaning of The Lord of the Rings is to be found in | |||
| The intention of the author |
   
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6 | 11.11% |
| The experience of the reader |
  
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29 | 53.70% |
| Analysis of the text |
  
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12 | 22.22% |
| I haven't the faintest idea, I just think the book is cool |
  
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7 | 12.96% |
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07-12-2005, 12:01 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Perched on Thangorodrim's towers.
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The text.
As the text is the written and presented intention of the author, the arbiter of this epic and novel-world, he is the "canon". In the instance that the text contradicts itself, the author's intentions are to be examined, then the text more congruent with those intentions is to be held as more canonical. That's MY canon, anyway. ~Formendacil -  ~
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