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    From Stan Brown@the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm to rec.arts.books.tolkien on Wed Jan 3 02:32:14 2024
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    I think the article does a good job of navigating
    applicability versus allegory. (You'll remember
    Tolkien's brief diatribe in the preface to LotR.) It
    also identifies numerous experiences that gave him
    ideas, and there are several interesting photos.

    "How J.R.R. Tolkien Came to Write the Stories of 'The
    Rings of Power'"

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/jrr- tolkien-write-stories-rings-power-180980686/
    Refreshingly, it's not behind a paywall. Hopefully
    that's true globally, not just in the US.

    Final sentence:
    "The key message of N.menor, as timely now as ever, is
    that the lust for power leads to wholly avoidable
    disaster."
    --
    Stan Brown, Tehachapi, California, USA
    https://BrownMath.com/
    Tolkien FAQs: http://Tolkien.slimy.com (Steuard Jensen)
    Tolkien letters FAQ:
    https://preview.tinyurl.com/pr6sa7u
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    https://BrownMath.com/general/ringfaq.htm
    Encyclopedia of Arda:
    https://www.glyphweb.com/arda/default.htm
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