Timeline for Is there a way to determine the respective canonical status of Tolkien's Middle-earth related works?
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| Sep 18, 2021 at 18:09 | comment | added | Wade | Do you perhaps mean "consistent" instead of "canonical"? I agree that not every work is 100% internally-consistent (although I am not aware of internal contradictions in The Hobbit particularly), but I never heard someone use the word "canonical" in this way. | |
| Dec 27, 2017 at 3:43 | comment | added | M. A. Golding | Mooz - In my opinion your opinion about my opinion is invalid. LOTR does not consist of a single short simple sentence that says only one simple thing. LOTR is much more complicated than that. Gene Roddenberry, who was a much more successful writer than we probably are, is famous for decreeing that different Star Trek movies and episodes, and even parts of movies and episodes, are not canon Star Trek. Challenge his belief that it is possible for only part of a story to be canon after you have created something as great as Star Trek. | |
| Dec 27, 2017 at 3:26 | comment | added | M. A. Golding | Edlothiad and Valorum - There are many examples of apparent contradictions within works of fiction. Either a fan accepts an explanation that one or both of the statements does not mean exactly what it seems to, or else they must accept that the two statements contradict each other and thus that the work of fiction is not 100 percent consistent and canonical with itself. You should just accept that LOTR is not 100 percent consistent with itself and thus not 100 percent canonical with itself. | |
| Dec 20, 2017 at 20:56 | comment | added | Möoz | Your opinion is invalid. | |
| Dec 20, 2017 at 20:46 | review | Low quality posts | |||
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| Dec 20, 2017 at 20:34 | comment | added | Valorum | "Each work is almost 100 percent canonical with itself". Huh? I'm sorry, but this is just gibberish | |
| Dec 20, 2017 at 20:32 | comment | added | Edlothiad | "The lord of the rings is almost 100 precent canonical with itself" how can something be "almost canonical" with itself? That's like saying 12 is almost equal to 12..? What? | |
| Dec 20, 2017 at 20:30 | history | answered | M. A. Golding | CC BY-SA 3.0 |