he said "Tolkien may not have bothered without him" Tolkien was not driven by market acceptance ; he wrote The Hobbit for his children, and he wrote LOTR as a great myth for Europe. Tolkien was an academic and wrote for himself, for his fellow academics, and for God. >>>
ok, I don't think that's figurative or colloquial - I think that's the literal definition of the word. And it's that literal meaning that I am disagreeing with, based on my reading of his autobiography. For reasons I explained above.
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Forget it Travis, it’s farmhandtown.
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ACE wouldn’t have been able to sell all those copies of the hobbit if other people hadn’t created the market and distribution model for paperbacks, just as I wouldn’t be typing this without Jack Dorsey, Steve Jobs, etc. Has nothing to do with Tolkien’s bio.
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You've moved the goal posts. The claim was "Tolkien ...may not have bothered without him." It's made quite clear in his autobiography that his interest in writing LOTR had almost nothing to do w commercial gain. So argument about how many copies Ace would sell is irrelevant.
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