Considering how much debate there is on this subject in the wider world, it is surprising that in a year, there has been no discussion begun about it. For my part, I take an extremely broad view of the canonicity of the works of Tolkien. If it was penned by Tolkien, and had anything whatsoever to do with Middle Earth, then I view it as part of the canon. This would include his private writings and notes. The fact that something is contradicted by later writings should not, to my mind, affect its canonicity. The contradiction of part of the fun of it all. As I said in my user page, we are not dealing with the Bible here, and I think we can tolerate a bit of contradiction.--N3rus 06:08, 1 March 2007 (UTC)