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Nick: Atlas (Registered User)
Date/Time: Tue, 4/1/2003 at 5:06 EDT (Tue, 4/1/2003 at 1:06 PST)
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In Reply To: Moreover, who's account of this scene are we reading?  <Reverend>  [3/31/2003 @ 20:27]  (3/5)
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Aragorn's.
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I think a better case can be made that Aragorn's account of events is the second most important source that Tolkien had to draw upon after that of the hobbits themselves. (And Legolas was third in my opinion, though there is less support for this.)

Aragorn is followed by the narrator at Helm's Deep, as I will point out next week. Aragorn is the one followed in Boromir's Departure, and we will follow him into the Last Debate. And Aragorn speaks Rohirric, while Gimli and Legolas do not.

Since in the Prologue's note on Shire Records we see that even the hobbit-written source texts are from Gondor (for the most part), it seems reasonable to guess that other Gondorian texts that detail the exploits of the founding king of the house of Telcontar would be Tolkien's most important secondary texts.

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