From: BrendaWriter@yahoo.com   
      
   On 10/22/2014 3:44 PM, William Vetter wrote:   
   > 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?   
   >   
   >   
      
   Because Christopher Tolkien would have resurrected them from the charred   
   ashes and published them, of course.   
      
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