2008/12/29 Carcharoth <carcharot...@googlemail.com>: > I can point to articles that source statements and claims to Tolkien's > letters, or quotes from those letters. The articles should probably, > more technically, point to secondary literature that uses those > letters as a source, but there always seems to be exceptions where > directly citing the letter seems the best way to allow verifiability. > I can certainly attest that quoting a secondary source can give undue > weight when the secondary source is giving only one interpretation of > what a letter might mean. And the concern that quoting the letter > directly is original research is also very real. Interpretation of the > meaning of what someone has said can be very tricky.
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