Posted: September 20, 1999 at 11:01:42: by shadowfax
: Right, but dates are important in this case and even more important is how the doll was made. : What we have to find out is if it was Tolkien's idea to give Tom a feather or the doll was like that. Because if it was Tolkien's idea, then maybe he was modeled after the wizards in Roverandom. If he just copied the dolls looks, then it's impossible to have a connection, because the wizards couldn't have been modeled after Tom, because the story was written over 20 years earlier. :
: : One thing, before I find out about the doll.
: : Although It works well with figuring out the modern day canon of the Protestant Bible;Years and dates can't figure too much in this line of discussion. As an artist,I can safely say my work from 5 years ago affects the piece I drew today, and I haven't noterized that, or done the math. Tolkien wrote whatever popped in his head, so he didn't figure dates and noterization into his original mythology.
: : Seanith yes okay but, suppose Tolkien decided the doll was a sort of wizard because, by chance, it conformed with his previous idea of wizards.
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