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| View Poll Results: The 'real meaning' of the Lord of the Rings is to be found in: | |||
| The Author's intent |
   
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2 | 7.14% |
| The Reader's individual opinion |
  
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6 | 21.43% |
| Mainstream Reader consensus |
  
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| The BarrowDowns Book Forum consensus |
  
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2 | 7.14% |
| A Glimpse of Divine Truth |
  
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1 | 3.57% |
| The Reader's collaboration with both the Author's intent and the opinions of others |
  
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4 | 14.29% |
| Divine Truth glimpsed by the individual Reader guided by the Author's intent |
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3 | 10.71% |
| It does not have to have a 'meaning' at all, the books are entertaining, and that's sufficient |
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5 | 17.86% |
| All of the above may be true up to an extent |
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5 | 17.86% |
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08-16-2005, 06:39 PM
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Spectre of Decay
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Bar-en-Danwedh
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No text can be fully studied in translation
You missed out 'To find the true meaning, one must read them in the original languages'. Unless you've read the Golden Book of Tavrobel in Quenya or the Red Book of Westmarch in Westron, the meaning will be clouded by Tolkien's translations.
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