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   From: Troels@ThisIsFake.invalid   
      
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   > Clearly, it takes a certain type of person to discover new   
   > perspectives (or label them as such) for no other reason than a   
   > genuine and undimmed enthusiasm for the source material.   
      
   I often find that new perspectives are being offered by others -- in   
   general I find new perspectives offered by people who have spent even   
   more time than myself on studying Tolkien's work and its context.   
      
   I will, however, gladly acknowledge that my interest in such new   
   perspectives is fuelled by 'a genuine and undimmed enthusiasm for the   
   source material' -- /undimmed/, mind, since claiming an /unchanged/   
   enthusiasm would be in error: my enthusiasm for Tolkien's work has   
   certainly changed quite a lot in the decade in which I have moved on   
   to study it more seriously, but with increased knowledge and   
   understanding has come an even greater enthusiasm (though also an   
   enhanced appreciation of the weaknesses).   
      
   > On the other hand, there are genuine reasons to 'recycle' content   
   > via non-amateur ventures like third party books and popular   
   > websites but possibly less inspired by creativity and more   
   > influenced by melko... er, I mean commercial motives.   
      
   Ah, the fatal power for corruption that the Black Enemy instilled in   
   particular in gold (and which seems to have spilled over into all   
   later measures of wealth)  :-)   
      
   Of course my interest is also fuelled by such, as I have already been   
   fortunate enough to receive all of two (2!) works on Tolkien for   
   'free' (paying only with the time needed to review them -- womething   
   which, counting only review time and not reading time, almost comes   
   to a quarter of my regular pay per hour . . .).   
      
   --   
   Troels Forchhammer    
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       In this case the cause (not the 'hero') was triumphant,   
       because by the exercise of pity, mercy, and forgiveness of   
       injury, a situation was produced in which all was redressed   
       and disaster averted.   
    - J.R.R. Tolkien, /The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien/ #192   
      
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