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The White CouncilRe: Dunlendings: Eomer's position.Tolkien and Inklings Discussion |
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The White CouncilRe: Dunlendings: Eomer's position.Tolkien and Inklings Discussion |
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Posted by Martin Read on January 21, 2000 at 11:49:25 In Reply to: Re: Dunlendings: Eomer's position. posted by Michael Martinez on January 18, 2000 at 21:25:26:
: Well, Rohan maintained the guard over Amon Anwar in the last centuries of the Third Age, according to "Cirion and Eorl", so I don't see it as a big deal that Aragorn would retain legal control over Isengard and Orthanc. And Cirion had retained Isengard when he ceded Calenardhon to the Rohirrim anyway, so there was already some precedent for Gondor's having maintained an outpost well beyond its borders. : I should also point out that the statement about Eomer's realm in THE PEOPLES OF MIDDLE-EARTH is not really "late". Most of the material in the book is contemporary with THE LORD OF THE RINGS, but was compressed for reasons of space. Tolkien excised mention of this annexation from the published versionof LOTR, we cannot know whether this was merely through the need to make the appendices more concise or whether he thought better of the matter. Tolkien seems to have been reluctant to physically throw away any of his manuscripts, even things which he seems to have later resolved quite differently. In general I give less credit to material not published in his lifetime, to that published (and presumably edited and polished) by him directly.
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