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noWizardme
Gondolin
Sat, 6:26pm
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(An old, tradition -- and a fine one I think ought to be kept alive -- is to reply to what appears to be someone's first post on this board with that sentiment!)
Thanks for posting this - I enjoyed this piece about Barfield. Given the amount of time Barfield, Tolkien and the others spent in the pubs of Oxford discussing their ideas, it seems perfectly reasonable that some of Barfield ended up in the 'soup' or stockpot of Tolkien's imagination for writing LOTR.
Or should it be lasagne, not soup.....?
...Or is that Garfield, not Barfield?
Anyway...
I wasn't sure how seriously to take your claim that this was 'yet another essay in the tiresome genre of "what Tolkien really believed".'
It is, it's true a genre in which one faan can rarely persuade another. For myself, I note that Tolkien said:
'As for any inner meaning or 'message', it has in the intention of the author none
LOTR 2e Foreword
And so the "what Tolkien really believed" genre inevitably brings up the question of whether what we're really talking about is what the essayist would like Tolkien to mean, or assumes he means, and isn't really about what Tolkien really means at all.
This I realise makes me the aggrieved girlfriend in the 'distracted boyfriennd' meme. So be it. 
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"I am not made for querulous pests." Frodo 'Spooner' Baggins.
(This post was edited by noWizardme on Sat, 6:30pm)
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