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   From: steuard@slimy.com   
      
   In message , Troels   
   Forchhammer  wrote:   
   > Stan Brown  spoke these staves:   
   >> Yet by /The Hobbit/ and /LotR/ the Orcs could not endure sunlight.   
   >> When did this change?   
      
   > I've been thinking of this, and investigating a bit further.   
   [big snip]   
      
   To second Stan, I very much like your analysis here!  It's fascinating   
   to see what we can learn from inconsistencies like this (whether   
   story-internal or story-external).   
      
   > [#] I believe that I have previously explained my view of _The   
   > Hobbit_ as intended, by Tolkien, to be an independent branch off his   
   > main legendarium [...] Rather like branching off software from a   
   > main branch and developing on it without any intention of ever   
   > having these changes merged back into the main branch.   
      
   And rather like software, eventually some management type comes back   
   and insists on merging the wildly divergent branch back into the trunk   
   anyway because "it has the features marketing needs". :)   
      
   						Steuard Jensen   
      
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