A funny thing happened on the way to the canon: Canons do not add anything

» Pervertedhobbit - Canons do not add anything

What is really important about the canons? I mean, take the Balrog debate. Do they have wings, or don't they? Isn't it enough to know that one of them wiped out a thriving community of dwarves, and are thus rather scary? Elves having pointy ears? Is this in the least bit important? Does it add any enjoyment to the universe? Ditto the beards, and anyway thier is more then one race of elves in the book. We overanilyse our reading matter to the point that we lose sight of wha actually matters in a book.

-- posted by Pervertedhobbit