From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, October 19, 2014 9:46:55 PM UTC-4, bre...@sff.net wrote:   
   > You have   
   > to pick and choose, budget your fictional drive. And then you have to go   
   > with what you pick. If it's not a book -about- the convent then it is   
   > not worth wasting time on it. You spend lots of fictional capital on   
   > what is important (to you) and less on what is not so important, until   
   > finally you are spending zero energy on what you don't care about. This   
   > is why there is no discussion of finances in LOTR, and why there are so   
   > few women. That wasn't what Tolkien was interested in.   
   >   
   How do you know JRRTolkien didn't have 8 complete novel mss. about feminist   
   dwarves, but they all sucked, so he burned them?   
      
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