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* [[Dear Negative Reader]]: In his introduction to the second edition of ''The Lord of the Rings'':
{{quote|“Some who have read the book, [[Take That, Critics!|or at any rate have reviewed it]], have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.”}}
* [[Destructive Saviour]]: The people of Beleriand are relentlessly harried and killed by the evil Morgoth. The desperate remnant calls upon the Valar -- extremely powerful gods or angels. The Valar come in force, launch the "War of Wrath" [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=War_of_Wrath\]{{Dead link}} and utterly defeat Morgoth -- but in the process, nearly all of Beleriand is flooded and sinks under the sea, only a few mountain tops surviving as small islands.
** And what would become the Elven kingdom of Lindon, which was originally the eastern edge of Beleriand (the Blue Mountains being the border of Beleriand).
** The setting also has a Ragnarok equivalent in which the evil of Morgoth will be entirely purged from Middle Earth. Fortunately or not it will also be [[The End of the World as We Know It]] as all of Ea will be ''remade''.
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* [[Warrior Prince]]: By the bucketload.
* [[What Could Have Been]]
** Tolkien once proposed coauthoring a scholarly book on linguistics with his academic colleague and friend C. S. Lewis. Lewis started the manuscript, but unfortunately they never got around to finishing it. [https://web.archive.org/web/20180822125322/http://www.txstate.edu/news/news_releases/news_archive/2009/07/CSLewis070809.html
** For that matter, it's hard to keep from feeling wistful when reading the many fragments of unfinished stories and poems collected by his son Christopher in ''[[The History of Middle Earth]]''. There's even a whole volume of them entitled ''Unfinished Tales.''
* [[When Trees Attack]]: The Ents were created because Tolkien had seen a production of ''[[Macbeth]]'' as a child and was disappointed when it turned out that the forest itself didn't actually attack.
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