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Ok, so check this. It's clear to me that, in retrospect, Tolkien wouldn't have re-written the first half of Fellowship the way he originally did. The writing in the first half is much more similar to the whimsical fairytale style of The Hobbit than the darker and more mature Romantic mythology stuff that followed. Tom Bombadil and his mysterious cunt wife don't fit into this at all.
If you want another example of how Fellowship was probably initially meant as a follow-up children's story, there's a fox who sees Frodo and Sam leave the Shire and has a monologue about it. The rest of the trilogy is absent of anything like that, as animals are just dumb beasts. The eagles help at the end but aren't given human qualities.
The story also becomes less episodic in nature after the first half. Obviously, the initial structure was meant to allow parents to read the book as a collection of almost self-contained bedtime adventure stories to their kids - one new story every night.
People who complain this piece of shit was left out of the movies clearly have no taste or affinity for good storytelling.
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