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Originally Posted by jplumey
Not sure I understand this statement. Are you saying that J.R.R. Tolkien put too much detail in it, and that the hint is that we should not follow his example? Because LOTR was very detailed, and then we had all of the books about this universe.
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I'd say the reverse.
I'm one of the folks who spent more time in the Appendices of LoTR looking for back story that wasn't mentioned in the books, and pounced gleefully on the Silmarillion to learn more about the First Age, and how the story in LoTR came to be.
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Dennis